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'Deadlier' than delta: Lambda covid variant detected across 30 countries

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COVID-19 strain called 'Lambda' is much more dangerous than the Delta variant, said the UK Health Ministry adding that it has been detected in more than 30 countries in the past four weeks.

On Monday, the Health Ministry tweeted, "The Lambda strain was reported to have originated from Peru, the country with the highest mortality rate in the world," reported The Star.

It further reported that the Health Ministry had linked the report by the Australian news portal news.com.au saying the Lambda strain had been detected in the United Kingdom.

According to the portal, six cases of the Lambda strain have been detected in the UK to date. However, the researchers are worried that this variant may be "more infectious than the Delta variant", The

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