Medical experts around the world are following a descendant of the highly infectious Delta variant that’s currently spreading in the UK. From Business Insider:
England’s public-health authority said in a report on Friday that it was monitoring a subtype of the Delta variant called AY.4.2, which had infected more people recently.
Francois Balloux, the director at the University College London Genetics Institute, tweeted on Saturday that data about AY.4.2 suggested it could be 10% more transmissible than the most common Delta variant in the UK, called AY.4.
As of September 27, 6% of UK sequenced tests were AY.4.2, Public Health England said in its report on Friday, adding that estimates could be imprecise because it was difficult to sequence the variant’s mutations.
Read more at Business Insider. https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1449803423906418691
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