Delta variant accounts for 83% of new cases in US, CDC director says
A cluster of midwestern and southern states have emerged as new hotspots for Covid
A cluster of midwestern and southern states have emerged as new hotspots for Covid
“A cluster of midwestern and southern states have emerged as new hotspots for Covid
The highly transmissible Delta variant of the coronavirus now accounts for 83% of all sequenced cases in the US, a top federal health official said on Tuesday.
“This is a dramatic increase, up from 50% [in] the week of 4 July,” Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said in Senate testimony.
Walensky also said Covid fatalities had risen by nearly 48% over the past week to an average of 239 a day.
“Each death is tragic and even more heartbreaking when we know that the majority of these deaths.”
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