COVID overshadows Duterte’s plans for final year in office Ted Regencia © Provided by Al Jazeera As cases of the Delta variant pop up a health expert said that the biggest problem in the pandemic response seems to be vaccine hesitancy [File: Lisa Marie David/Reuters] Just days after the first COVID-19 death due to the Delta variant was announced in the Philippine southern island of Mindanao, Khim Caermare, a volunteer teacher for the deaf, gathered 15 of his students to convince them to get vaccinated. The province had recently experienced a surge in infections that filled hospitals and more than 170 deaths. The Delta variant was first identified in India.
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