The Ministry of Health indicates that 101 people have been diagnosed positive for covid19 in the past 24 hours. Among them, are 46 people infected with the Delta variant or Indian variant which greatly worries the local authorities. For the time being, no containment measure has been announced to deal with this variant 60% more contagious than the English variant at the origin of the last wave of deaths during the month of January and February in the Land of the Cedars and itself more contagious than the original strain.
Bad news also, the rate of positive PCR tests is again revised upwards.
2 deaths were also announced in the wake.
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The president of the National Committee for the administration of the Corona vaccine, Abdel Rahman Al-Bizri, estimated that the Delta variant would currently come mainly from abroad and not via local contaminations, due to the presence in average of 70 people infected via Iraq, Turkey, the Emirates, Ethiopia. and Qatar,
If the foreign vaccines are considered less effective against this variant, the vaccinated people would however show milder symptoms than the unvaccinated people.
In addition, he also specified that a million and a half doses have already reached Lebanon.
