This variant appears to spread much more quickly than previous strains and has now been identified across all areas, but the good news is that the available vaccines do appear to offer a high degree of protection against the new variant, plus the steps we all should be taking to help reduce the spread of coronavirus generally are also effective for Delta. If you are identified as a close contact of someone who has received a positive result, self-isolate and get tested yourself as advised by CTS, and don’t exit self-isolation, even if your test result comes back as negative.