on the sequence information on gisaid till april 24 2021 the proportion of n440k variants are increasing clustering in some regions more than the others sah said adding that the study did not say n440k was the deadliestks jawahar reddy chairman ap state covid command control centre said that b1617 was present in ap and telangana b1617 is spreading quickly in india the variant was detected in samples collected from maharashtra karnataka west bengal delhi gujarat chhattisgarh jharkhand madhya pradesh ap and telangana according to the world health organisation this indian strain has been detected in at least 17 countries including the uk the us and singapore jawahar reddy said