SA is buckling under the weight of the Delta variant that has fuelled the Covid-19 third wave, but now another more transmissible variant known as Lambda has surfaced in the Latin American country of Peru.           

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Lambda variant was first detected in Peru but quickly spread to more than 30 countries including Australia and the UK. ..

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