Unvaccinated individuals do not merely risk their own health but are potential ‘variant factories’ of coronavirus, CNN reported. "Unvaccinated people are potential variant factories. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press briefing that the Delta variant is continuing to evolve and mutate. The Delta variant which further mutated to form the Delta plus, characterised by B.1.617.2 variant acquiring another mutation, K417N has been classified as a "variant of concern" in India. Delta variant is infecting people who contracted a different variant earlier.

Source: Mint July 04, 2021 04:07 UTC