Delta, the new variant strain of COVID-19, from India has mutated becoming more "contagious and deadly" according to the World Health Organization (WHO), has already been in Mexico for over a month with an increase in infections in various states.
In its latest report, the Mexican Consortium for Genomic Surveillance revealed that from the samples taken from February 23 to May 9, the sequences of genomes potentially relevant to public health, including the Delta variant of India, the British and Brazilian, which have been designated as Variants of Concern (VOC) or Variants of Interest (VOI), are . . .
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