Updated on July 6, 2021 at 6:36 pm
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According to the California Department of Public Health, 35% of new COVID-19 cases detected by testing in June were of the delta variant strain, up from around 5% in May. The delta variant is now the dominant strain of COVID-19 cases in California.
Here in San Diego County, local officials said that there have been 25 positive cases of the delta variant, but because they are not testing every positive result, that number is likely higher.
Download our NBC 7 mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. You can t test every single one of the positive tests, said county board of supervisors chair Nathan Fletcher. In a lot of testing incidents, you ll keep the samples. A lot of the testing units don t keep the samples. Some of the samples aren t eligible, so we re going to sequence as many as we can to see general trends.
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