Sat 26 June 2021:
The head of the World Health Organization has said the Covid-19 variant first seen in India, also known as the delta variant, is “the most transmis sible of the variants identified so far” and that it is now spreading in at least 85 countries.
At a press briefing on Friday, WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the UN agency was concerned about the increasing reach of the delta variant, particularly among unvaccinated populations.
“We are starting to see increases in transmission around the world,” Tedros said, adding that “more cases means more hospitalizations…which increases the risk of death.”
WHO has previously said that two doses of the licensed Covid-19 vaccines appear to provide strong protection against the variant first seen in India but warned the lack of access to vaccines in poor countries — which have received fewer than 2 percent of the billion doses administered so far — makes them extremely vulnerable.
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