[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- In June 2021, Liberia experienced a surge of cases of infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. To investigate why, a team of scientists from Liberia and the United States conducted an indepth study of virus samples collected in the country. Not long after, on August 5, 2021, the Liberia Minister of Health announced that one of the dominant strains of SARS-CoV-2 circulating in the country had been identified as the delta variant. These important findings, based on the analysis of 146 virus
