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Delta threatens rural regions that dodged earlier COVID waves

Data on the variant’s spread in India make researchers fearful for areas in developing nations that lack health care and vaccines.
  1. Smriti Mallapaty
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As the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 sweeps across Asia, researchers are increasingly concerned about COVID-19 spreading beyond urban centres to rural regions that were largely spared in earlier waves of the pandemic and have less access to testing, health care and vaccines.

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Nature 596, 325-326 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02146-w

Updates & Corrections

  • Correction 13 August 2021: A previous version of this story described Surakameth Mahasirimongkol as director of the departments of medical life sciences and genomic medicine at Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health. He is in fact the director of the genomic medicine and innovation support division. The story has been updated to reflect this.

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