On Tuesday, the Korea Disease Control and preventionAgency (KDCA) said that the first two cases of the new Delta Plus COVID-19variant and the country is now fighting with the fourth wave of the virus.
The delta plus variant cases are only seen in a fewcountries such as India, Britain, and Portugal. The subline of this variant isDelta variant and was first detected in India; this variant also has the spikeprotection mutation also known as K417N or Beta Variant.
According to the sources, the agency stated, “The firstcase (in South Korea) was identified in a man in 40s who has no recent travelrecords.” The source of these cases is yet to be identified. Those people whowere in contact with the infected person are 280 in number, which includes his sonalso. The officials are saying that it is not certain whether the son is alsoinfected by the same variant or not.
The second case of the Delta plus variant is a travelerwho came back from the US, he was completely vaccinated with AstraZeneca beforethe tour.
According to the reports, it is prominent that the delta plusvariant has become the dominant strain in South Korea as well because of 64% ofthe 3,014 genetic analysis infections. The fully vaccinated infected cases arelower.
According to the researchers, this variant is terriblethen every other and the Indian scientists are researching the effectiveness ofthe vaccines against this infection.
The country stated that they have vaccinated 39% of thepopulation with at least 1 dose, and 14.1% of the citizens are already fullyvaccinated. The country targets to vaccine 36 million by the next month,September. The cases reported in South Korea reported 1,202 new cases whichhiked to 202,203 infections and 2,104 deaths.