As if the Delta variant wasn’t enough, a Delta plus variant of SARS-CoV-2 has been recently identified and while it’s only causing the scientific community to take note as of now, it could soon cause governments across the world to hasten their immunization efforts.
On 13 June, clinician and scientist at Delhi's CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), Vinod Scaria tweeted "One of the emerging variants is B.1.617.2.1 also known as AY.1 characterized...