The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged fully vaccinated people across the world to continue wearing face masks, follow social distancing and other safety protocols to prevent the COVID-19 virus from spreading across the world.
At a press briefing on Friday, WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted with concern that as some countries ease public health and social measures, there is an increase in transmission around the world.
“The Delta variant, first identified in India and the cause of the country’s horrific second wave of the pandemic, is the most transmissible of the variants identified so far,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday.
After causing the massive second wave of the pandemic in India, the Delta variant of COVID-19 is now spreading rapidly in several other countries around the world. The highly transmissible variant, first identified in India is behind the fresh surge being reported in countries like the UK,…