In UK they warn third wave of coronavirus is underway due to Delta variant

In statements to Radio schedules, the expert acknowledged that “the race has begun” between this third wave and the expansion of the Delta variant and indicated that the determining factor to emerge from this new crisis lies in the vaccination campaign.

“If we can protect enough older people to avoid a huge wave of hospitalizations and deaths, then things can get back to normal“Finn predicted.

For his part, UK Health Minister Matt Hancock has confirmed that the Delta variant already accounts for 96 percent of detected cases, justifying the need to extend restrictions for an additional month, as announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Moscow, for example, recorded 9,120 new cases of COVID-19 this Saturday in the past 24 hours, the highest daily figure in this pandemic, which Russian specialists and health authorities attribute to the circulation of the Delta variant on Russian territory.

For the time being, in Argentina “no circulation of the Delta variant” of the coronavirus has been detecteds, as recently indicated by Humberto Debat, virologist and member of the Argentinian inter-institutional project on the genomics of SARS-CoV-2.