Study: The viral load of “Delta” is 300 times higher than the original “Corona” strain

A new study has found that people infected with the “delta” strain of the “Corona” virus, have a viral load 300 times higher than those infected with the original strain.

The study was conducted by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KDCA), and researchers compared the viral load of 1,848 patients with the delta variant with 22,000 people infected with the original strain.

The viral load is the density of the virus present in the blood of an infected person.

The higher this load, the more likely a person will pass the virus on to another person.

The researchers found that the viral load when infected with the "delta" variant was 300 times higher when symptoms first appeared.

Thereafter, this percentage decreases from 300 to 30 times by the fourth day of symptoms onset and then to 10 times by the ninth day.

On the tenth day of infection, the level of viral load in people with “delta” coincides with its level in people with the original strain, according to the study.

And the Korean Centers for Disease Control urged people to undergo a “Corona” test immediately when developing any symptoms and to avoid personal meetings, in order to avoid spreading the “delta” variable.

The Delta strain was first discovered in India, before it spread around the world.

A British public health study published last week concluded that the protection provided by the two most commonly used Delta vaccines, namely the Pfizer-Biontech or AstraZeneca vaccines, weakens within three months, and that those who were infected after receiving Both doses of these two vaccines may pose a greater risk to others than previous strains of the virus.

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