East Timor has recorded its first case of community transmission of the Delta variant of the coronavirus, raising concerns by its health ministry about a possible spike. Genomic sequencing by Australia’s Doherty Institute in the first week of August found that of 27 samples taken in the country’s Ermera region from people infected with the coronavirus, 12 were of the Delta variant. Ermera has the highest number of active cases and lowest vaccination rate in East Timor, which borders Indonesia. The health ministry in its Aug. 8 report said Delta variant transmission “is likely to cause a significant increase in case numbers, including severe cases and deaths.” Home to 1.3 million people, the Southeast Asian nation has recorded just 11,579 cases and 28 deaths since the start of the pandemic. About 8.5 percent of its 1.3 million people have been fully inoculated so far, using the vaccines of AstraZeneca and …