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‘Delta’ variant of COVID-19 becoming dominant globally: WHO
GENEVA, June 19, 2021 (BSS/TASS) – The Delta variant of COVID-19, first detected in India, tends to become the dominant variant worldwide, Soumya Swaminathan, the World Health Organization’s chief scientist, said at a briefing on Friday.
“The Delta variant is well on its way to becoming the dominant variant globally because of its increased transmissibility,” Soumya Swaminathan said.
Earlier, the developers of Sputnik V stated that the Russian vaccine was more efficient against the Indian variant that any of those which trial results had been submitted for publication.
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