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Covid-19 Delta Variant Threatens to Set Back Europe’s Recovery - The Wall Street Journal
Jun 22, 2021 46 secs
The Delta variant of the coronavirus is spreading rapidly across continental Europe, raising the risk of a rebound in infections and a delay to the region’s economic comeback.

The variant, first discovered in India late last year, has prompted Portugal to seal off its capital city of Lisbon on weekends.

In Germany, where Delta is still rare, scientists expect it to make up the majority of Covid-19 infections in the coming months.

In the U.K., Delta is already dominant and scientists estimate it is between 40% and 80% more transmissible than the Alpha variant, which first took hold in England and is itself about 50% more transmissible than the original virus that emerged in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, according to British public-health experts.

Still, the rebound in infections has prompted the British government to push back lifting public-health restrictions—such as limits on the size of gatherings and mask requirements—by a month, to mid-July.

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