{"id":78325,"date":"2021-09-03T16:04:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T15:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=78325"},"modified":"2021-09-03T16:04:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T15:04:52","slug":"covid-19-first-delta-variant-cases-emerge-in-niger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/09\/03\/covid-19-first-delta-variant-cases-emerge-in-niger\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: First Delta variant cases emerge in Niger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first cases of Delta variant of Covid-19 have been recorded in the impoverished Sahel state of Niger, which until now has been relatively spared in the pandemic, the authorities said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Genetic sequencing found six cases of Delta \u201camong the last cases that occurred in August,\u201d Health Minister Illiassou Mainassara told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>All the patients \u201cwere treated and recovered,\u201d he said, but added \u201cserious forms of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/09\/03\/nigerian-jailed-in-us-for-stealing-from-covid-19-relief-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Covid-19<\/a> are more and more widespread.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The six cases were in the capital Niamey, the ministry\u2019s press office said, adding that efforts to track and trace contacts of the patients were underway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are the first cases of Delta variant recorded in Niger, detected among people who were not vaccinated,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Niger is the poorest country in the world, according to the benchmark of the UN\u2019s Human Development Index (HDI).<\/p>\n<p>It has had relatively few cases of coronavirus compared to other countries, with an official tally of 5,867 cases, 199 of them fatal.<\/p>\n<p>So far, \u201cmore than four per cent\u201d of the country\u2019s population of 20 million have been vaccinated, Mainassara said, describing this as a \u201csmall upturn\u201d compared with July, when only 0.3 per cent had been jabbed.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Niger received 100,800 doses of AstraZeneca from Canada under the international Covax donation scheme for poor income countries.<\/p>\n<p>It has also received 400,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccines from China, 600,000 AstraZeneca and Johnson &amp; Johnson jabs from the United States and 25,000 doses of AstraZeneca from India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first cases of Delta variant of Covid-19 have been recorded in the impoverished Sahel state of Niger, which until now has been relatively spared in the pandemic, the authorities said on Friday. 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