Delta variant, WHO: “It’s no longer lethal”

The Delta variant of the coronavirus, although more transmissible, is no longer lethal. This is what the epidemiologist of the World Health Organization, Maria van Kerkhove, argued during the WHO briefing in Geneva, according to which “we have seen an increase in hospitalizations” due to the spread of the variant, “but not a still seen an increase in mortality “.

For his part, the WHO emergency manager, Mike Ryan, reiterated that “the vaccines currently approved all provide significant protection against the severity of the disease and hospitalizations”.