Delta goes to Europe, First detected, October in India

Red list announced on 19th April for the 23rd April

UAE, 22nd April

France, 24th April

US, 4th May

During massive surge in India

Why is the UK worst / first effected?

April, 20,000 people arrived in UK from India in first 3 weeks

Multiple introductions

Any single introduction may simply die out

EU health officials, 90% of cases by late August.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-euro...

Germany

Angela Merkel

Europe is on thin ice

All member states should quarantine arrivals from the UK

Headache and runny nose linked to Delta

Andrea Ammon, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

preliminary data shows that it can also infect individuals that have received only one dose of the currently available vaccines

Two doses offered high protection against the Delta (B.1.617.2) variant

France
Delta in Les Landes in the south-west, 70%

Nationally, 10%

30% fully vaccinated

President Emmanuel Macron

We should all be vigilant because the Delta variant is coming

We see that it affects people who have not yet been vaccinated or who have only had one dose, which means we have to be even faster in this vaccination campaign

Russia

Cases, + 20,000

Deaths, 569 deaths

Highest figures since January

Moscow - Delta variant, 90% of new infections, (mayor)

Vaccinations as of 16th June

First dose, 12.8%

Fully vaccinated, 9.9%

Portugal

New restrictions, Lisbon, Tagus valley

Delta more than 50% of new cases

Cabinet Minister Mariana Vieira da Silva

an attempt to contain the Delta variant

Country could have acted differently

Euro 2020

Germany v England in London next Tuesday

60,000 fans (75% capacity)

German World Medical Association

(Frank Ulrich Montgomery)

Travelling to the UK runs the risk of getting infected with the Delta variant

I consider it irresponsible for even vaccinated people to travel to London in this situation

Denmark

Asked 4,000 fans to get tested

Three people tested Delta positive

Last Thursday's Denmark v Belgium

All three are thought to have been infected at the game

Boris Johnson

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk

NHS covid app running in England

Fully vaccinating people offered a good way forward for resuming travel