LOS ANGELES - South Korea’s Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) announced on Tuesday that it had detected its first two cases of a new "delta plus" coronavirus variant, Reuters reported.
So far, reports of the new variant are limited, but there have been some cases identified in multiple countries including the U.K., Portugal and India."The first case (in South Korea) was identified in a man in 40s who has no recent travel records," the KDCA told Reuters.
The delta plus variant differs from the primary delta variant that scientists believe is the most contagious coronavirus mutation so far in the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic.