Delta variant 60% more transmissible, reduces vaccine effect, UK experts say

The Delta variant is 50% more transmissible than the Alpha variant, first discovered in the UK, experts from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) said. The rapid surge in cases during Delhiā€™s fourth Covid-19 wave was mainly driven by the…