MILAN (Reuters) – Italy’s national health institute ISS said on Friday the Delta variant accounted for 16.8% of total COVID-19 cases in the country.
Pending results of a more complete survey that will be released in the coming days, the institute said “cases of the Kappa and Delta variants… rose from 4.2% in May to 16.8% in June”, based on data extracted on the 21st of the month.
(Reporting by Emilio Parodi, writing by Maria Pia Quaglia; editing by Giulio Piovaccari)
