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watoday.com.au on 2021-06-30 00:00

Delta strain and ‘fleeting contact’: the mystery behind WA’s hit-and-miss COVID spread

Why are some people contracting the Delta variant after “fleeting” contact but others – including the partners of community cases – are not?

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