Delta Plus variant found across 85 countries: New matter of concern?

85 countries across the world have registered cases of Covid-19’s new strain Delta Plus. World Health Organisation has warned that the strain is expected to become a “dominant lineage” if current trends continue.

The official report stated that the variant Alpha has been reported in 170 countries, territories or areas, Beta in 119 countries, Gamma in 71 countries and Delta in 85 countries by June 22. Sources also informed that “Delta, now reported in 85 countries globally, continues to be reported in new countries across all WHO Regions, 11 of which were newly reported in the past two weeks,” WHO said the four current ‘Variants of Concern’ being monitored closely – Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta – are widespread and have been detected in all WHO regions. “The Delta variant is significantly more transmissible than Alpha variant, and is expected to become a dominant lineage if current trends continue.”

Sources said that India has reported the highest number of Covid-19 cases  441,976 over the past week a 30 per cent decrease as compared to the previous week. The highest numbers of new deaths were reported from India.

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