EXPERTS LAMENTS DELTA VARIANT POSSESSES MORE RAPID & DEADLY SPREAD POWER

Experts has warned the delta variant is more deadly in spreading and infecting the public

EXPERTS LAMENTS DELTA VARIANT POSSESSES MORE RAPID & DEADLY SPREAD POWER
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Its in the news that people infected with the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 are more likely to spread the virus before developing symptoms than  people infected with earlier versions of the Corona virus. 

An expert in China insists “It is just tougher to stop,” says Benjamin Cowling, an epidemiologist at the University of Hong Kong and a co-author of the study, which was posted on a preprint server last month.

Cowling and his colleagues analysed exhaustive test data from 101 people in Guangdong who were infected with the Delta variant between May and June this year, and data from those individuals’ close contacts shows how deadly the variant is in spreading even when the carrier isn't aware he or she is infected.

They found out that, on average, people began having symptoms 5.8 days after infection with Delta 1.8 days after they first tested positive for viral RNA. That left almost two days for individuals to shed viral RNA before they showed any sign of COVID-19.

Its unfortunate that the work is still battling with this deadly variants even years after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. More studies has revealed that it will take sometime before the world will be rid of the pandemic and its various deadly variants.


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