Last Updated Wednesday, July 7, 2021 9:03PM EDT The scientific director of the Ontario Science Advisory Table says the province is “absolutely not” ready to move into the next step of the reopening plan due to the spread of the more transmissible Delta variant. Dr. Peter Juni described the COVID-19 variant that first emerged in India as a “completely different beast.” "If you have uncontrolled growth with (the) Alpha (variant) after four weeks, we have roughly 6,000 cases. But after the Delta, you have around 60,000 cases. This shows you how careful we need to be," Juni told CP24 Wednesday evening. "What we now need is roughly 75 per cent of the eligible population fully vaccinated and we need to see how step two of the reopening works out. We only see that roughly after two and a half weeks after we started with step two. So, we need to wait now, be patient and not get ahead of ourselves. It's an absolute no-go to rush this."