The Delta variant proved itself to be a bigger concern than previously thought — sending areas of the world back into lockdown and potentially causing countries with little to no vaccinations to be at risk for increased infection.
, a leading epidemiologist at Imperial College London, Delta is 60% more transmissible than the Alpha variant, which itself is already more transmissible than the original COVID-19 variant that emerged from Wuhan, China in 2019.has declared the Delta variant to be the most dominant strain in the U.K., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization haven’t officially announced that the Delta variant is the most transmissible strain of the virus to date.
The Delta variant was first discovered in India in December 2020 and was reported to be the cause of 60% of positive cases in New Delhi back in April,. The mutation has also overtaken the Alpha variant, B.1.1.7, as the leading strain found in positive cases in the United Kingdom; the former was the strain that initially sent the country into lockdown in January. Outside of the U.K.
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