ReutersCaseloads are on the rise as Southeast Asia feels the impact of the Delta variant. Southeast Asia, which escaped the worst of the coronavirus pandemic when it broke out last year, is again seeing record numbers of deaths and infections, with vaccination shortages and highly dangerous strains stalling containment efforts. As countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany, and France prepare to lift the majority of remaining restrictions following devastating outbreaks, governments in Southeast Asia have tightened restrictions in the hopes that targeted lockdowns will act as circuit breakers, halting dramatic increases in cases that began in May. On Thursday, Indonesia, the region’s most populous and hardest-hit country, recorded 38,391 cases, six times the number a month earlier, in a week in which the country’s daily death toll more than doubled since the beginning of July./n
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