Delta To Account For 90 Per Cent New COVID-19 Cases In Europe By End August: Report

Delta variant was identified for the first time in India. (File)

Stockholm:

The Delta variant, identified for the first time in India, could account for 90 percent of new Covid cases in the EU in the coming months, the bloc’s disease control agency said Wednesday.

“The Delta variant is more transmissible than other circulating variants and we estimate that by the end of August it will represent 90 percent” of new cases in the EU, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said.

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