Let's hope this has been contained enough in Melbourne to not...

Let's hope this has been contained enough in Melbourne to not spread any further ?

Could be a reason why the USA death numbers have slowly started increasing / become stagnant around 4000+ per week ?

Time for some other therapeutic approvals Mr FDA to help deal with this - just sayin'

https://thehill.com/changing-americ...1-delta-covid-19-variant-has-the-potential-to

Delta COVID-19 variant has the potential to become "more dangerous"


While the country has been seeing a steady decline in COVID-19 cases, the contagious Delta variant is continuing to spread in the U.S., and public health officials warn it could shape to become the catalyst for another outbreak.

For the former director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Scott Gottlieb, the Delta variant could become a more widespread problem during fall 2021.

“The question is: Are there enough unvaccinated people that this could get into the population and start spreading more widely? I happen to think it’s unlikely that this is going to be a threat until the fall, perhaps,” he told CNBC.

These comments come as the Delta variant, denoted as B.1.617.2, composes roughly 2.5 percent of the total infections in the U.S.––up from roughly 1.3 percent as of June 2.

It stands to be of particular concern as the United Kingdom may slow its lifting of public health restrictions as the Delta variant surges.