Tag: Variant

Mumbai has reported its first death due to the Delta Plus variant of the novel coronavirus. According to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials, a 63-year-old woman succumbed to the Delta Plus variant of Covid-19 on July 27.

Sri Lanka’s war against the Delta variant which has exhausted the country’s health system and overburdened hospitals is still in its formative stages and is only expected to worsen in the coming three weeks, doctors have warned.

As the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 continues to spread in Sri Lanka at an alarmingly rapid speed, the number of oxygen-dependent patients has soared by 75% within the past 10 days, Health Ministry’s data showed.

Around 30 percent of the reported COVID 19 patients within Colombo City have been infected with the Delta variant, Chief Medical Officer Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) Dr. Ruwan Wijayamuni said today.

COVID-19 clusters are forming within the health workers with several doctors having being infected with the virus despite being fully vaccinated in recent days.

The "war has changed" against COVID-19 because the Delta variant is as contagious as chickenpox, can be passed on by vaccinated people and may cause more serious disease than earlier strains, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

July 30 (Reuters) - Asian countries from Australia to Japan and the Philippines announced tighter COVID-19 restrictions on Friday, as they battle worsening coronavirus outbreaks, driven by the more contagious Delta variant.

Upon first inspection, the mutations in the highly contagious delta covid variant don’t look that worrisome.

The 600,000 people, above the age of 30 years, who received the first dose of AstraZeneca, but who have not received the second dose are vulnerable to the rapidly spreading Delta variant in the country

Two doses of Pfizer or AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine are nearly as effective against the highly transmissible Delta coronavirus variant as they are against the previously dominant Alpha variant, a study published on Wednesday showed.