LONDON: The British government said on Friday that the new Delta coronavirus variant is 60 per cent more transmissible in households than the variant that forced the country to lock down in January.
The government ramped up its public vaccination drive in response, and has now given two doses of vaccine to nearly 29 million adults and one dose to nearly 41 million.Daily cases rose to 7,393 on Thursday, a level not seen since February. More than 90 per cent of new cases were of the Delta variant, ministers said.
The government said this suggested the vaccination programme is mitigating the impact of the Delta variant, urging the public to get both jabs.
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