Not even a month went by without a new variant. After the British variant, the Indian variant, commonly known as the Delta variant, raises fears of new waves of pollution around the world. not that.
Gabriel Attal, Government Spokesman Is in Perpignan last Friday, A France expressed its concern on the Inter this Monday morning. The Variation Delta “Gets to the ground very quickly”. “It doubles every week. Today we are at more than 30% pollution.” “A The fourth wave At the end of July there is a chance (…) that we will continue to vaccinate “.
Already hit hard Variation Delta, English, they warned of the origin of a variation affecting almost 30 countries: The Variation Lampta, First detected Peru And responsible for 80% of cases in the country.
Peru: 200 infections in December, 50% of cases in March, 80% today
According to director Jeff Barrett COVID-19 Citing Genomics Initiative at Welcome Singer in the UK Sky News, The Variation Delta Currently “A collection Mutations Rather unusual “. The unique pattern of seven mutations in spike protein that the virus uses to infect human cells is remarkable Financial Times.
According to a study conducted at the University of Chile, this is even higher Contagious Than variations Gamma (Brazil) and Alpha (British). Professor Sukayama, a molecular microbiologist at the University of Guidano Heredia in Lima, provides evidence by: “We had 200 lambda infections in December.” “By the end of March, it made up half of all samples taken in Lima. Now, three months later, we see more than 80% of infections nationwide.”.
According to the British, the Lampta variant has spread to 27 countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States or Germany. At this time, theWHO It is classified “Types to follow”.