Delta variant cloud over Covid-19 success stories across the globe

Israel — a world leader in vaccinations which has inoculated about 85 per cent of its adult population — is again asking people to wear masks in indoor public spaces amid a coronavirus outbreak driven by the arrival of the highly contagious delta variant.

The variant of concern  also forced downtown Sydney and the city’s eastern suburbs, which include Bondi Beach, to go into a one week lockdown from midnight Friday as authorities struggled to contain a spike in the delta variant in the city.

In Thailand, the national Covid-19 panel announced a one-month clampdown on movements from all residential camps for