Delta variant: COVID-19 deaths rise by 80% in Africa, says WHO

The World Health Organisation says COVID-19 deaths have increased by 80 per cent in the past one month in Africa, mostly driven by the highly-transmissible Delta variant. WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said on Friday at his regular COVID-19 briefing that the Delta variant had been detected in at least 132 countries. Ghebreyesus said almost four…