Taiwan Reports First Domestic Case of Delta COVID-19 Variant

Taiwan Reports First Domestic Case of Delta COVID-19 Variant
People wearing protective face masks shop at a market amid the coronavirus pandemic, in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 8, 2021. Ann Wang/File/Reuters
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TAIPEI—Taiwan reported its first domestically transmitted case of the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus on Saturday, tightening controls in a southern part of the island where the cases have occurred.

Taiwan is battling a cluster of domestic infections, almost all of them due to the previously globally dominant Alpha variant, though numbers are steadying and the outbreak has been comparatively small.