are in the private sector in italy are getting the vaccine, facing hefty penalties. in france, we have people going out to cinemas or to theaters or to eat in restaurants and this long distance travel in the country. so they are encouraging people to get the jab. it s a worrying trend the w.h.o. has alarm if this trajectory continues. the healthcare sectors could be placed under extreme pressures, pressures we haven t seen before. going into the winter months with the delta variant present and the highly variant and the seasonal flu. these are real concerns right now. more action needs to be taken. as the w.h.o. moved, not a lot of time to do that. ken. probably a predictor of what will happen here in the u.s. thank you so much. it s a die after the uk
of respiratory virus. but once you start to think of it more like smoke, someone who is infected pushing smoke out into the environment, it is very hard to protect people from that sort of thing. so as good as possible, jim, perhaps, but we know what we re dealing with here. and what s the risk that the olympics turn out to be a super spreader event? do they have to worry about the delta variant there? reporter: i think so, you know. i mean, first off, just take japan in terms of what was happening before the olympics. we can see how the delta variant was tracking. i think more than half the countries around the world now have delta variant present, if not dominant. the same thing has happened in japan. so this is when we say this is more contagcontagious, one t that is worth pointing out, people who have this infection, they tend to have a thousand times the viral load than they would have had with the original strain. so a thousand times the viral load means even if you don t
delta universe, 50 states now have the delta variant present, including hawaii delta variant present, including hawaii and alaska. this is a very worrying hawaii and alaska. this is a very worrying and exponentially it is going worrying and exponentially it is going up worrying and exponentially it is going up every week and in fact here we have going up every week and in fact here we have a going up every week and in fact here we have a high number of positive cases we have a high number of positive cases but we have a high number of positive cases but the one thing here is there cases but the one thing here is there are cases but the one thing here is there are very few deaths and lower level of there are very few deaths and lower level of hospitalisation according to the level of hospitalisation according to the figures we are getting from the ons to the figures we are getting from the ons. | to the figures we are getting from the ons. ., ., . , ., the ons. i
spreading. reporter: i think so far they re telling us the lesson is that this should be a warning to people who aren t vaccinated yet that this is an incredibly contagious variant and it will essentially find you. missouri is working with the waste water facility like this one to see whether or not covid-19 is present in communities and to identify specifically which variants are there and what they found is not only that the delta variant present in the state of missouri, but they said that it is spreading particularly fast in smaller, rural communities where they have less vaccinated people in those communities. where we are right now, less than a third of the people living here are fully vaccinated. they discovered the delta variant in that waste water here just last month. listen here. in november when we weren t dealing with that variant being in our community we had maybe