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Countries ramp up efforts to contain COVID-19 amid surge of Delta variant

Countries are ramping up efforts to contain COVID-19 amid the surge of the highly infectious Delta variant. Unlike earlier forms, the Delta variant spreads easily, even outdoors, and that means the coronavirus is surging across the hot countries of the global south that had been spared massive outbreaks until recently. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports.
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