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Israeli experts warn: COVID-19 Delta strain could make a comeback



 

Israeli experts warn: COVID-19 Delta strain could make a comeback
  

On May 02, the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel issued a communiqué, saying that the research team found that the delta strain was still “secretly spreading” while the mutated new coronavirus Omicron strain accelerated the spread .  The researchers warn that the delta strain could make a “comeback.”

 

Israeli experts warn: COVID-19 Delta strain could make a comeback

 

Researchers monitored wastewater in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba between December last year and January this year and found that the delta strain did not disappear as the Omicron strain accelerated. In “Clandestine Propagation”.

 

The prediction model developed by the research team shows that the transmission of the Omicron strain will “taper or even disappear” in the next few months, but the delta strain will continue to spread, which may lead to a new wave of delta. Strain infection surges or new threatening mutant strains emerge.

 

So far, the World Health Organization has identified five “requiring attention” new coronavirus variant strains, namely Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Omicron.

Since the first three strains have been significantly less transmissible, WHO in March this year classified them as “previously circulating strains of concern” and the Delta and Omicron strains as “transmitting strains of concern” Watch out for strains”.

 

 

 

 

Israeli experts warn: COVID-19 Delta strain could make a comeback

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