DELTA VARIANT OF COVID-19 DETECTED IN KUWAIT

  • 15/06/2021

Kuwait City: The sources within the Ministry of Health have reported that the Delta strain of the COVID-19 virus has arrived in Kuwait. The authorities have announced that there is no need to panic as the country is capable of containing the spread. The Ministry of Health did neither specify the number of infected individuals nor announce their nationalities. 

Sources within the Health Ministry confirmed that the effect of the Delta strain will be checked in time. Several factors favour this, the most important of which is that the vaccination drive that used Pfizer and Oxford vaccines provide high levels of protection by 88 per cent and 60 per cent respectively against the Delta variant, especially for those who took the 2nd vaccine dose.

Moreover, despite the increase in the number of infected in the UK due to the Delta variant, the death rate has remained unchanged due to vaccination. Similar to the UK, other countries in which this strain appeared, did not witness major increases in Infections, despite the ability of the Delta variant to spread very quickly and cause more serious symptoms, also the Russian Victor Center for Virology and Biotechnology ruled out that this strain would cause a new pandemic, stressing that there was no scientific basis for that.

Recent British statistical data confirmed that those who did not receive any vaccinations against the Coronavirus are more likely to be infected and affected by the Indian mutant delta.

The Indian Delta variant of the COVID-19 is characterized as double mutated because it combines two different mutations at the surface protein level, E484Q and L452R, which makes it easily escape from the grip of the immune system. Therefore it is recommended to adhere to the health requirements, a vaccination campaign and conducting research and investigation of the new strains through genetic planning

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