Janet Yellen ‘Very Concerned’ at Delta, Other Variants Threat to COVID Recovery

Janet Yellen ‘Very Concerned’ at Delta, Other Variants Threat to COVID Recovery

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said she is "very concerned" about the risk that new coronavirus variants could pose to the global economic recovery from the pandemic.

"We are very concerned about the Delta variant and other variants that could emerge and threaten recovery," she told reporters following a G20 meeting in Venice, Italy, on Sunday, according to Agence France-Presse.

"We are a connected global economy, what happens in any part of the world affects all other countries."