Lambda is the 11th letter in the Greek alphabet beginning with Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta. We use it as a measure of wavelengths in physics, electronics, engineering, and mathematics. And also to indicate the number of offspring each generation can populate. However nowadays, media interest is beginning to focus on the Sars-CoV-2 Lambda variant lapping our shores.
How Far Could the Lambda Variant Spread?
That’s up to us humans, as we by now understand. A doctor first detected Lambda in Peru in December 2020. But, by April 2021, over eighty percent of new cases of COVID-19 in Peru were from the new variant. So we know it is highly infectious
The Sars-CoV-2 Lambda variant also spread to 29 other South American countries by June 2021. And it is particularly virulent in Argentina, Chile and Ecuador. On July 6, 2021 Australia reported the first case. The overseas traveler had previously spent time in a New South Wales quarantine hotel in April that year.
The Sars-CoV-2 Lambda Variant is Still Third Page News
The third page of an average newspaper is still important, yet many of us hardly give it a glance. The Pan American Health Organization PAHO seeks to improve the health and living standards of the people of the Americas.
The Lambda variant accounted for nearly 82% of the coronavirus case samples PAHO reported during May and June 2021. Yet the World Health Organization still lists it as a variant of interest, not concern.
EuroNews suggested on July 7, 2021 that Lambda is less relevant because the variant has not spread sufficiently wide. However, Public Health England recognizes it as having ‘a potential increased transmissibility, or possible increased resistance to neutralizing antibodies’. Let us keep taking care.
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