The Delta variant is more easily transmitted than the original Covid-19 variant and is beginning to become the world’s dominant version of the infection, the World Health Organization’s chief scientist said on Friday.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Rochelle Valensky, noted that the cases of the Delta option have doubled compared to last week and that now this option represents half of all cases in the United States, added BNR.
However, she noted that the increase was “a cause for concern but expected” due to the nature of the variant and called on people to be vaccinated, saying that further mutations in this variant of the coronavirus could lead to new variants to be vaccinated. be immunized against current vaccines.
The White House coordinator for the Covid-19 response Jeffrey Zienz announced on Tuesday that the US administration’s goal of vaccinating against coronavirus with at least one dose of 70% of all adult US citizens would be missed.
Zienz, however, tried to paint a more optimistic picture of vaccination efforts, saying that currently 70% of people over the age of 30 have received at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine and that by 4- July (US Independence Day) this group should include all Americans over the age of 27.
He also said that young people aged 18 to 26 “thought they were not affected by the virus” and warned them to get vaccinated due to the continuing rise in the Delta coronavirus variant.
Jeffrey Zienz also noted that the second goal of President Joe Biden’s administration to have 160 million people fully vaccinated by Independence Day will have to be postponed to mid-July, and that the White House now predicts that the target of 70% vaccines for American adults will be moved by “a few weeks”.
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