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UK government poised to declare Delta coronavirus B.1.617 a Variant of Concern or VOC
The UK government is thought to have detected more than 40 clusters of the Indian Covid variant B.1.617 in the UK, and is on the verge of declaring it a “variant of concern”.
India: The stunning rise of the B.1.617.2 [Delta] coronavirus variant
Professor Christina Pagel: [B.1.617.2] rapidly became dominant in India and, again, the sequenced data there is sparse, but early modelling shows that it might well be more transmissible than our B.1.1.7 Kent strain. More...