In the same week that Gov. Gavin Newsom dropped capacity limits, social distancing rules and most masking requirements across the state, the so-called Delta variant of Covid-19 increased nearly 30%.
The state last week also declared Delta a “variant of concern” for the first time.The strain had previously barely registered on the weekly new variants count posted by the CA Department of Public Health.
But on Thursday, the number of cases related to Delta and related variants discovered in the state rose from 286 to 400. That’s a 28.5% rise week-over-week.
The total is, of course, still tiny compared to the 3 million-plus infections from other strains in the region. But as U.K. leader Boris Johnson extended his country’s lockdown due to the
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