The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention () finally classified a variant that emerged in as a 'variant of interest' (VOI) on Wednesday.Known as B.1.617, the variant has become the most common in the Asian country, making up an estimate   
  
  
  
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 The variant is believed to be at least partially responsible for India's second coronavirus wave, as officials recorded 412,262 cases - a record-high number - and 3,980 deaths on Thursday, according to the country's Health Ministry. During a press conference, Slot Gacor Dr Sujeet Singh, the director of India's National Center for Disease Control, said he believes the virus is behind the surge, but that more studies are needed. 'We have not been able to establish the epidemiological and clinical correlation completely yet,' Singh said on Wednesday. 'This correlation is the main aspect and without it we cannot link a particular surge to the variant.'The first case in the U.S. was identified in California in early April by researchers at Stanford University. Only nine cases have been confirmed in the U.S. linked to the Indian variant, (above) and no hospitalizations or deaths have been reported Since then, a total of nine cases have been confirmed in California, Iowa and Michigan, according to a DailyMail.com analysis of state data.As of Thursday afternoon, no hospitalizations and no deaths have been reported. The CDC classifies coronavirus variants in three categories: variant of interest, variant of concern and variant of high consequence. The Indian variant joins the New York variant, B.1.526, and a less common UK variant, B.1.525, as 'variants of interest.'There are four variants of concern -  the common UK variant, B.1.1.7; the South African variant, B.1.351; the Brazilian variant, P.1; and the California variant, B.1.427/B.1.429 -  in the U.S. and no variants of consequence.   
  
  
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