Health authorities in South Korea reported the country’s first two cases of the delta plus COVID-19 variant on Tuesday, according to local reports.

Delta plus is a “subvariant” of the delta variant, which health authorities have blamed for the current rise in infections across the United States, and has now been diagnosed in more than 20 countries.

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