It doesn’t feel like a month has passed without the appearance of a new variant. After the British variant, the Indian variant which is now better known as the Delta variant, raised fears of a new wave of pollution around the world. And no.
Gabriel Attal, government spokesman attended Perpignan last Friday, a himself expressed his concerns, this morning at France Inter. That varian delta “Win the field really fast”. “It’s almost doubling every week. Today we are more than 30% of the pollution.” “A fourth wave end of July possibly (…) We should continue to be vaccinated”.
Already hit hard by varian delta, the UK, they warn about the occurrence of a variant affecting nearly 30 countries: the varian Lambda, first detected in Peru and is responsible for 80% of state affairs.
Peru: 200 infections in December, 50% cases in March, 80% today
According to Jeff Barrett, director of COVID-19 The Genomics Initiative at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in the UK, cited by Sky News, that varian Delta present one set mutation rather unusual “. According to a unique pattern of seven mutations in the venous protein that the virus uses to infect human cells Financial time.
According to a study conducted at the University of Chile, it would be more contagious as variant Gamma (Brazil) and Alfa (English). Professor Tsukayama, a doctor of molecular microbiology at the Cayetano Heredia University in Lima, provides the evidence with numbers: “We had 200 Lambda infections in December.” “At the end of March, that was half of all samples taken in Lima. Now, three months later, we are seeing over 80% of all infections nationwide.”.
According to the UK, the Lambda variant has spread to 27 countries, including the UK, USA or Germany. NowWHO categorized it “variant to follow”.
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