Indian equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty50 are likely to make a gap-down opening on Friday tracking losses across other Asian markets amid worries about a new COVID variant. At 

am, Nifty futures trading on Singapore Exchange -an early indicator of the Nifty index -- were down 209.5 points or 1.2 percent at 17,368.

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