The Delta Variant From India Which Emerges In Kudus Is Twice As Bad As Other Types Of COVID-19

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JAKARTA - The Delta variant of COVID-19 from India was reportedly detected in Kudus Regency, Central Java. Kudus is one of the regencies in Central Java that was detected as a red zone for the spread of the Coronavirus.

Besides Kudus, Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin said that the Delta variant corona or B1617.2 from India now also dominates in DKI Jakarta, Bangkalan, East Java.

According to the study, the Delta variant is highly contagious and can cause greater morbidity than other variants.

In a recent study published in the journal The Lancet, researchers from Scotland saw that people infected with the Delta variant were more likely to be hospitalized.

This was known after researchers saw data on 19.543 COVID-19 cases in Scotland, of which 377 were hospitalized.

Researchers found that out of 19.543 positive cases, 7.723 specific cases were caused by the Delta variant of Coronavirus. A total of 134 people infected with the Delta variant required treatment.

Public health expert Professor Chris Robertson of the University of Strathclyde said the Delta variant could double the risk of hospitalization.

The currently available vaccine is still recommended by researchers to reduce the threat of severe symptoms from the Delta variant.

"If you are positive, two doses or one dose of vaccine over the past 28 days can reduce your risk of being treated by 70 percent", Chris said.

Previously, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin revealed that the COVID-19 explosion in Kudus was influenced by the Corona India B1617.2 variant or the delta variant.

According to the Minister of Health, the transmission of the new variant was caused by the large number of Indonesian migrant workers returning home and also activities in the seaport area.

"The reason is that yesterday during the holidays, most of our people were probably already euphoric because they had started vaccinations. The second was also the entry of new strains that spread very quickly, so we began to see a significant increase (cases) in several areas, especially Central Java", said Minister of Health Budi in his presentation, Sunday, June 13.

"And it has been confirmed that it is a new variant. We have observed the entry of many migrant workers in Indonesia, there are also many through seaports. We usually take good care of the airport", he continued.

The reason, said the Minister of Health, Budi, is that many workers in Indonesia carry goods from India. So variants from India are indeed more at risk of entering Indonesia.

"But because many seaports in Indonesia carry goods and many also come from India, so they enter from there. We have examined the new variants. The results only came out about 2 days ago, that indeed the one in the Kudus area is a new variant that comes from India", concluded Minister of Health Budi.