Delta strain displaces other strains
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The new strain is rapidly spreading around the world. In Germany, the share of the spread of the Delta is 59%, in the USA – almost 52%.
The Delta coronavirus strain continues to spread rapidly around the world and has already become dominant in the United States and Germany. Reported by NBC and the German edition Der Spiegel.
So, according to the report of the Robert Koch Institute of Virology, since the end of June, the share of the spread of the Delta in Germany is 59%. In particular, the new strain has supplanted its predecessor – Alpha, which was distributed in Europe at the beginning of this year. Currently, only a third of all reported cases belong to the alpha variant.
Meanwhile, the US medical regulator CDC also reported that as of early July, the Delta strain has also become dominant in the country. Today, the spread of the strain is 51.7%.
Recently, US health officials warned of the rapid spread of the Delta strain, as its prevalence doubles every two weeks.
In the United States, over the past 14 days, the number of coronavirus cases has increased by 14%, to an average of 13 thousand per day, but the number of deaths has decreased by 19%, to an average of 250 per day.
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