JAKARTA, Indonesia — Over a dozen fully vaccinated doctors have died of COVID-19 in Indonesia, a medical association said Friday, as the Southeast Asian country battles a rash of severe cases in inoculated medical workers and highly infectious new virus strains. The country is also grappling with new virus strains, including the highly infectious Delta variant first identified in India. Dozens of communities in Central Java's Kudus regency were put under lockdown after the Delta variant was detected in local testing samples, causing a sudden spike in virus cases. "We have no clue on how to trace and find the first spreader of the Delta cases because the sampling test result came out around three weeks after the mass exodus," he said. "My sample was among the tested sampling for the Delta variant.

Source: Philippine Star June 26, 2021 00:56 UTC