The World Health Organization and authorities in the U.K. have fired off a warning about the highly contagious COVID-19 Delta variant, which is being blamed for 90% of British cases.
First emerging in India, the Delta variant is now around 60% more infectious than the Alpha strain that was previously dominant in Britain, new Public Health England analysis showed on Friday.
Read: Vaccinated and need a vacation? CDC relaxes guidance for Americans traveling to more than 100 countries. Speaking at a press conference on Friday, Antonio Zapatero, deputy health chief of the Madrid region, said the Delta strain could become the dominant one in Spain in between six and seven weeks, El Pais reported.
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