Delta variant hits Pakistan amid 4th COVID wave worries

ISLAMABAD  - Concerns of a fourth wave of coronavirus in Pakistan have grown amid the emergence of the Delta variant, a strain of the virus first identified in neighboring India.

"The Delta variant is spreading across the country," a senior official in the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC), Pakistan's anti-virus task force, told Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity. This spread comes despite the positivity ratio, which shot up to 9% in May, recently hovering between 2% and 4%.