First Case Of The Lambda Covid Variant Reported In Los Angeles, But It’s Not Yet Much Of A Match For Delta
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deadline.comThe first case of the much-talked-about Lambda variant of Covid-19 was reported by Los Angeles health officials on Thursday.
But for all the fanfare, Lambda doesn’t seem to have been much of a match for Delta – yet.“We’ve only seen one Lambda variant among tests sequenced in our labs, and this was a sample from June,” said L.A.
County Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer. The fact that Lambda was sequenced in June and has not been found since would seem to indicate it’s not spreading rapidly — if at all — in the county which, according to Ferrer, saw the powerful Delta variant account for “99% of all sequences last week.”Lambda was first identified in Peru in December 2020, according to the World Health Organization.
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