Fig. 1.

a Daily number of COVID-19 cases recorded in India. First cases, where 12 Asiatic lions were found positive, were recorded during the peak of the pandemic, whereas incidence in leopard cub was recorded when the incidences in humans significantly subsided. b The leopard sample clustered into common SARS-CoV-2 G-clade (GISAID classification) or Delta variant (B.1.617.2 Pango lineage). Consensus sequences of each clade were generated by aligning using ClustalW tool in MEGA X version 10.1 followed by consensus generation in EMBOSS server. Phylogeny was constructed using NGphylogeny server (https://ngphylogeny.fr)