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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.
Reuters reports:
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.
Six people in Pingtung county had been confirmed to have the Delta variant, including two who returned this month from Peru, where they are suspected of bringing the infection from, said Health Minister Chen Shih-chung.
A healthcare company that employs as a senior director the brother of the aide the UK health secretary, Matt Hancock, was pictured kissing has said it had never benefited from the connection to the him.
PA reports:
Reports suggested Roberto Coladangelo, strategy director at Partnering Health Limited (PHL Group), was the brother of Gina Coladangelo.
And as the familial connection between the two was confirmed on Saturday, PHL, which provides urgent and primary care services, said it had never been awarded any contracts by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
