General News of Tuesday, 22 June 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comAn Indian contagious strain of the novel Coronavirus known as the Delta variant has been detected in Ghana. Now that the Delta (Indian Variant) is taking over, it’s just a matter of time before it will come here in large quantities. We have a few here but it’s going to increase,” Professor Awendare explained on Joy Prime. Professor Awendare indicated that the AstraZeneca and Sputnik V vaccines are not effective against the Indian variant. All this while, we’ve been fixed on AstraZeneca and Sputnik V but we have to shift towards more of Pfizer and others which have a better chance of protecting against this variant.

Source: GhanaWeb June 22, 2021 06:22 UTC