Melbourne’s COVID-19 cases surged to record levels on Thursday with officials blaming illegal home gatherings to watch a key sporting event for the spike as a hard lockdown to combat the spread of the Delta variant neared two months.
People who were previously infected with COVID-19 are reportedly better protected from the highly contagious Delta variant when compared to those without previous infections and who have received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, according to research shared on medical journal medRxiv.
A study by University of Oxford scientists has found that people who contract the Delta variant of COVID-19 after being fully vaccinated carry a similar amount of the coronavirus as those who catch the disease and have not been inoculated.
Vaccinated people infected with the Delta variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19, may be as …