There have been 180 cases of the Delta variant in Ireland to date
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He stated that some evidence suggests the Delta variant results in increased hospitalisation,"perhaps to the order of 2.5 fold over the previous variants".On the impact of immunity, he added:"When we use... the blood from people who recovered from previous types of the virus, when we mixed that with this new variant, we find it doesn't neutralise or knock out the virus as effectively as we would like.
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