Delta variant still dominant, says Premier Makhura

Gauteng Premier David Makhura says the COVID-19 Delta variant is still dominant in the province.

“We have received a report from our modeling team and our group of scientists who are tracking everything, all we know is that at the moment, the Delta variant is the dominant variant in our province, which is the one that is driving all the infections,” he said.

“Unfortunately we knew late to do something about it but we know that this monitoring is done at a national level.”

Meanwhile, a new variant is spreading across South America.

However, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases says the Lambda variant has not been detected in the country as yet.

Makhura confirms.

“We know that there will always be national briefings if there is a new variant that is really a variant of interest that gets picked up and the briefings are done,” he added.

“I am sure there is a lot of interest, this was raised in our discussions yesterday about the new variant, there is lots of interest out there but if you ask us what we are dealing with now is the ravaging impact of the Delta variant.”

Source: eNCA

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