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It’s been a dominant feature of the pandemic over the last few months. The Delta is on the rise in many countries worldwide. There are concerns our track and trace capacity is limited,ĭocuments from the Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS), obtained by Stuff, showed that when the Valentine’s Day cluster was at its peak staff were struggling to contact trace just 160 people per day. 3 The travel bubble with Australia increases the opportunity for cases, with more entry points into a larger population. Fewer than 325,000 people in NZ have been fully vaccinated. Our buildings have poor ventilation-a very important factor, especially over winter when we’re indoors more. We’re not keeping up our hygiene measures. We rarely wear masks on public transport.

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Too few people scan QR codes (turn Bluetooth on!). NZ’s easy complacency within the country leaves us vulnerable. Its more transmissible, and better at wriggling past a country’s COVID-19 defences. A bigger nutshellĭelta gets about easier. That’s not to say limited, ‘narrow’, or confined infection chains can’t be managed, but that we need to be faster and firmer on this variant – and vaccinate. Overall, its more challenging in almost every way.

it may affect younger people more than earlier variants.

seems to cause more varied and severe symptoms, with early symptoms more easily confused with a cold.

is about 40% more more infectious than Alpha, which is about 30% more infectious than original Wuhan strains 2.

spreads more easily, including among younger people.

There is no version of COVID-19 anyone “wants”, but the Delta variant is particularly concerning. The Delta variant is also in another Pacific neighbour, Fiji. Looking at the many locations of interest, and how other Australian states are blocking entry to people who have been at these locations, I imagine any further developments in Sydney will see this change. While our ‘open doors’ quarantine-free flights from affected areas in Melbourne were temporarily shut, they’re still open for people coming from Sydney. With international air travel new variants are at any country’s doorstep. Tracking systems identify ‘variants of concern’ (VOCs). Most mean little a few are of real concern. The best way to avoid still-worse variants is shutting down outbreaks. It’s a reminder the virus keeps evolving, and can keep evolving. Reviews from overseas suggests the new villain is crafty indeed. Or perhaps he is really a crier, calling out a new season of the show, a new plot twist with a craftier villain? The main feature in town is now the variant Delta-B.1.617.2-and its closest staging to us is a so far modest event in Sydney.

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