The Delta Covid-19 variant, first identified in India, has spread to almost 70 countries, including the U.S. Here’s what we know so far.
delayed by four weeks the country’s plans to drop all remaining Covid-19 restrictions in late June.
President Biden tweeted about the variant, noting its spread among young people in the U.K. and urging young Americans to get vaccinated. His chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, said in a White House briefing that the variant made up 6% of samples sequenced in the U.S. The variant will move from country to country over a difficult-to-predict time frame, said Jeff Barrett, director of the Covid-19 Genomics Initiative at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in the U.K. “I think the U.S. will be the next place that will probably see a reasonable rise,” he said.The B.1.617 lineage, identified in October, refers to several variants of the virus that causes Covid-19.
The most concerning of the lineage is the Delta or B.1.617.2 variant, which scientists say appears to have two advantages over earlier forms of the virus. It has been established to be more infectious and it also appears to be more effective at evading vaccines, though people who are fully vaccinated still have significant protection against illness.U.K.
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