RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The State Health Secretariat of Rio de Janeiro has confirmed two new cases of the Delta variant of the new coronavirus (B.1.617), which causes Covid-19. According to health officials, the patients are a 30-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman, residents of the Baixada Fluminense suburbs just west of the capital.
The cases of patients resident in Seropédica and São João de Meriti, were registered on June 16 and 17. The municipalities were notified and are investigating whether they are autochthonous transmissions, that is, occurring within the . . .
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