The Delta variant of COVID-19 virus is turning out to be deadlier than any other strain.
The virus has been found to be taking a higher toll than three other COVID-19 variants of concern.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that while less than one percent each of Alpha, Beta, and Gamma strains are currently circulating the predominant one was a Delta variant only.
Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization’s technical lead on COVID-19, said that the Delta variant “has become more fit, it is more transmissible and it is out-competing, it is replacing the other viruses that are circulating.”
Van Kerkhove while speaking at a WHO social media live interaction said that the Delta variant had now been detected in more than 185 countries.
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The emergence of COVID variants that posed an increased risk to global public health prompted the WHO to start characterizing them as variants of interest and more-worrying variants of concern.
The variants were named after the letters of the Greek alphabet to avoid the countries getting stigmatized. (AW)
Delta now ‘deadlier’ than any other COVID-19 strain – WHO
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