Between July and November 2021, the Delta variant has accounted for for at least 99 percent of the COVID-19 variants analyzed in the United Kingdom. However, in the two-week period up to January 5, 2022, the Omicron variant accounted for around 96 percent of SARS-COV-2 variants detected in the UK. The Omicron variant had been designated by the World Health Organization as a variant of concern in November 2021 and is regarded as more infectious than previous variants.
Distribution of COVID-19 variants in analyzed sequences in the United Kingdom (UK) between May 11, 2020 and January 5, 2022
The source adds "the share may not reflect the complete breakdown of cases since only a fraction of all cases are sequenced.
Numbers may not sum to 100 due to rounding,
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