The major worry about the Delta variant is that spreads far more easily from person to person, increasing infections and hospitalisations among the unvaccinated
A youth receives a vaccination against the coronavirus disease at a mobile vaccination centre in Tel Aviv, Israel on July 6 2021. Picture: REUTERS/AMMAR AWAD
Evidence is also mounting that it is capable of infecting fully vaccinated people at a greater rate than previous versions, and concerns have been raised that they may even spread the virus, these experts said. Public Health England said on Friday that out of a total of 3,692 people hospitalised in Britain with the Delta variant, 58.3% were unvaccinated and 22.8% were fully vaccinated.
“There is always the illusion that there is a magic bullet that will solve all our problems. The coronavirus is teaching us a lesson,” said Nadav Davidovitch, director of Ben Gurion University's school of public health in Israel.The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, one of the most effective against Covid-19 so far, appeared only 41% effective at halting symptomatic infections in Israel over the past month as the Delta variant spread, according to Israeli government data.
Virologist Shane Crotty of the La Jolla Institute for Immunology in San Diego noted that Delta was 50% more infectious than the Alpha variant first detected in the UK.
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