Delta variant poses twice the risk of hospitalisation - study

ReutersPublished: Aug 28, 2021 7:56 AM

People who get the Delta variant of the coronavirus are twice as likely to be hospitalised as those who were infected by the Alpha variant, which was first detected in England last year, a study showed on Friday.

The study, based on more than 43,000 Covid-19 cases of mostly unvaccinated people in England, compared the risk of hospitalisation for...

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