really be. we re yet to see very large numbers of delta cases at the moment. the data we have in the uk from the last month or so is probably the best data anyone has in the world on how vaccines fare against this variant, and what they have shown is after two doses of the vaccine in particular, they do offer strong protection. whether against infection or hospital. the good news is if those other countries who have this sword hanging over them are able to ramp up their vaccination campaigns in the next few weeks, they may be able to soften the impact that the delta wave has when it arrives. , ., ., «a impact that the delta wave has when it arrives. , ., ., ~ , ., impact that the delta wave has when it arrives. , ., ., ., ., ,, it arrives. john, thanks for talking to us and thanks it arrives. john, thanks for talking to us and thanks to it arrives. john, thanks for talking to us and thanks to your - it arrives. john, thanks for talking to us and thanks to your team i it arrives. j
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but for the main spectators, the limit will be 10,000. for each venue or 50% of the venue if it is a small being viewed, then it will be less than 10,000. well we already have the first olympic athlete injapan to test positive. it s a member of the uganda s squad. here are the the group of ugandans at tokyo s narita airport on sunday. the unnamed member is now quarantining at a government designated facility. and this is only the second group of foreign athletes to have arrived. the rest of the group continued on to osaka in the west ofjapan where they re training. i should add entire group tested negative before leaving uganda and everyone has been fully vaccinated. uganda though is currently in lockdown because of a surge in cases. and this is unlikely to go down well injapan. polls suggest public opinion is against the the games taking place now and the low rate of vaccinations injapan plays into that. around 16% of japan s population has received a covid 19 vaccination dose so fa
in france, just across the channel from the uk, the figure is only 7%. they re braced for that to rise. a senior official at public health france described the delta variant as a sword of damocles hanging over us . the data i ve just shown you is from the financial times data team. john burn murdoch is a senior data journalist there. how are you tracking how far delta is spreading in the various countries? so, the tricky thing here is that i think we ve all got a year and a half to dealing with general case numbers, but what you have to do to get numbers on the percentage that are coming from a particular variant are coming from a particular variant are looking is cases that have been genetically sequenced to work at the exact makeup of that case and which variants it comes from. in the tricky thing there is different countries do very different amounts of sequencing, so the uk is now believed to sequence about half of
been on intense pressure. earlier in the programme, we were discussing how the delta variant of covid has delayed the uk s covid plans. it s more contagious and more likely to result in people needing hospital treatment. and at the moment, in the the uk, delta now accounts for 98% of all cases. and it s now a majorfactor weighing on the minds of the uk s neighbours as the summer holiday season approaches. in italy, 26% of cases are now the delta variant. the government there last week imposed mandatory testing and a five day quarantine for uk visitors. in germany, 15% of cases currently sequenced by scientists are delta, but they re expecting that to grow. germany s leading virologist, christian drosten, said delta would certainly dominate the field here by autumn .
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