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Manufacturing managers across Southeast Asia reported a heavy blow in August from one of the worlds worst Covid-19 outbreaks, while producers in North Asia continued to enjoy robust output.

U.S. consumer confidence dropped in August to a six-month low, suggesting concerns over the delta variant and elevated prices are weighing on Americans views of the economy now and in the coming months.

Four new subspecies of Covid-19’s Delta variant have been found in samples analysed by Ramathibodi Hospital, health officials reported on Tuesday.

The Delta variant now accounts for nearly 93 per cent of new Covid-19 infections in Thailand, the Department of Medical Science said on Tuesday.

The CDCs failure in real-time data sharing "led top administration officials, including the president himself, to offer overly rosy assessments of the vaccines effectiveness against the Delta variant that may have lulled Americans into a false sense of security," said a report of the Washington Post.

Australia has suffered its worst day since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, with total daily cases surpassing the previous record posted more than a year ago as a delta variant outbreak spreads as far as New Zealand.

Hong Kong tightened its travel curbs for residents returning from 16 countries -- including the U.S., France and Spain -- less than two months after it started easing some of the worlds strictest quarantine measures.

People lined up to get vaccinated in Sri Lanka in the midst of a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, with medical officials warning that the Delta variant may be spreading beyond control.

As hospitals and allied medical facilities reached breaking point in the backdrop of the virulent Delta strain of the Coronavirus wreaking havoc across the country, Sri Lanka’s top national professional medical body, called for the re-imposition of travel restrictions to curb the rapid transmission of the deadly variant.

The Delta variant of the coronavirus has played havoc with governments plans to return life to some sense of normality.

Both had been fully vaccinated with AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine.

BEIJING - The Chinese mainland has imposed massive travel restrictions, including temporary closure of airports and travel alerts for citizens to other places across the country, to contain the spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19.