Delta variant is 60 percent more transmissible than the Beta variant
The NICD on Friday (June 25) said nationally there had been 18,762 new COVID-19 infections
Johannesburg: The Delta variant of COVID-19, identified in at least 85 countries and first detected in India, is likely responsible for the exponentially rising daily number of virus cases in South Africa s economic hub, Gauteng province, a leading epidemiologist said here on Saturday (June 26).
Official data would be released by the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) next week, but it is likely to show that there had been an increase in the transmission of the Delta variant, which is 60 percent more transmissible than the Beta variant first identified in South Africa, Shabir Madhi, director of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytical Research Unit at Wits University, told news channel ENCA.
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