Hospitalization rate for patients infected with the Delta variant was 85 per cent higher than for those infected with the Alpha variant
Australia’s Covid-19 response committee is because of maintain an emergency meeting on Monday as outbreaks of the extremely contagious Delta variant throughout the nation prompted a lockdown in Sydney and renewed restrictions elsewhere.
Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), reported a double digit rise in new locally acquired cases of Covid-19 for the third straight day as officials fight to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious Delta variant.
The World Health Organization (WHO) renamed the B.1.617.2 variant of the coronavirus, first identified in India, as the ‘Delta variant’.
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