Experts point out the features of the delta strain of coronavirus

The likelihood of contracting a delta CORONAVIRUS strain is higher than the usual covid-19 , Andrey Kondrakhin, a therapist and candidate of medical sciences, told RBC.

According to him, the incubation period is two times lower for the new strain. “What the virus used to overcome in two weeks, it overcomes in one week, so there is a rapid increase in the development of the disease. But here it is worth paying attention to the fact that the delta virus did not come to pure population immunity, but already to immunity that has developed to one degree or another, ”Kondrakhin said.

According to the expert, unvaccinated and non-ill people are more likely to be at risk because their body is not used to fighting the coronavirus. And the more people the virus infects, the stronger its properties of penetration into the immune system.

“If on the way he comes across resistance in the form of vaccination or in the form of a person who has been ill, the virus has to open the immunity that was already protected, if it gets on a clean person, then for him it is practically an open gate - it enters the body faster,” the expert added. .