BERLIN (Reuters) – The more infectious Delta coronavirus variant will become dominant in Germany in Autumn at the latest, the country’s top public health official said on Friday, urging the public both to continue wearing masks indoors and get vaccinated.
“The Delta variant makes up about 6% of infections, but it share is growing,” Lothar Wieler, head of Germany’s Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases said, referring to the variant first identified in India.
“It is not a question of if Delta will become dominant but a question of when,” he added. “It will have the upper hand in autumn at the latest.”
(Reporting by Joseph Nasr; Editing by Caroline Copley)
