According to city authorities, despite the presence of the delta variant, the number of cases has not shown significant growth. Testing has been carried out at basic care stations on people who had contact with anyone infected.
The Delta variant of Sars-CoV-2 now accounts for 95.8 percent of the cases of COVID-19 in the city, but it has shown lower lethality, which may have come as a result of vaccination.
Rio de Janeiro has the highest number of confirmed cases of infection with the variant—206.
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