Delta variant blamed for Covid-19 spike in Indonesia's Kudus district


Man reacts while receiving a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine inside a public bus, used as a coronavirus disease vaccination venue, outside the Madani hospital in Pekanbaru, Riau province. - Reuters

JAKARTA, June 13 (Xinhua): Indonesia has detected the highly infectious Delta coronavirus variant in the recent spike in Covid-19 cases in Kudus district of Central Java province, the province's governor Ganjar Pranowo said on Sunday.

The governor said that 86.11 perccent or 62 out of a total of 72 samples of recent Covid-19 cases in Kudus emanated from the Delta variant first reported in India.

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