As the threat from Auckland's Delta outbreak subsides in the South, more than 14,000km away in the United States, Marcie Amoroson describes a war zone in the fight against Covid-19. Photo / 123RFAs the threat from Auckland's Delta outbreak subsides in the South, more than 14,000km away in the United States, Marcie Amoroson describes a war zone in the fight against Covid-19. Conway Regional Medical Centre registered nurse Marcie Amoroson describes life in a Covid-19-ravaged intensive care unit ward in South Carolina. ''People are dying; they are dying a very ugly way of dying; they are dying alone,'' she said. The exact number of Delta cases was unknown because only a fraction of the Covid-19 cases undergo genome sequencing, the process to determine the variant.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 31, 2021 21:00 UTC