Officials have highlighted vaccines appear to be effective against this version of the virus, but most of Europe still isn’t vaccinated.
The highly contagious “delta” variant of the coronavirus originating from India now makes up nearly all of the U.K.’s new coronavirus cases, Health Minister Matt Hancock revealed Thursday, as the rapid spread of the mutant strain adds a new threat to Europe’s reopening. Hans Kluge, WHO’s regional director for Europe, encouraged countries to “act fast on signals of increasing cases” and urged caution as some move to reopen. Hancok stressed that vaccines appear to be effective against this version of the virus.
