Review Article

On the Delta Plus Variant of SARS-CoV-2

Selia Chowdhury
Dhaka Medical College, Bangladesh
* Corresponding author
Mehedi Hasan Bappy
University of Iowa, USA
DOI icon 10.24018/ejmed.2021.3.6.1134

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Submitted 2021-11-06
Published 2021-12-24

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The unprecedented consequences brought by the COVID pandemic are still going on, the virus hasn’t been tamed yet. It is evolving through mutations to consistently being a risk to public health. Recently, the Delta variant has been declared as the variant of concern by the World Health Organization (WHO). In this article, a subvariant of Delta known as Delta Plus has been presented to provide a relevant foundation for future research works. The evolution, pathogenesis, associated symptoms, suggested prevention and treatments, vaccine efficacy, and current trends of transmission of Delta Plus variant of SARS-CoV-2 are reviewed and discussed.

Keywords: COVID-19, delta, delta plus, mutation, epidemiology, management, vaccine efficacy

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