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No, I do not think you can just choose the least out of a finite number of deltas.

Even if the covering is finite, still, some more effort is needed; and compactness must be used again.

One option: assume the opposite; take an infinite sequence of points that are worse and worse (that is, their relevant neighborhoods are smaller and smaller); by compactness, there exist an accumulation point of this sequence; now find a contradiction...

Another option: the maximal radius of a "good" neighborhood is a function of a point, and this function is continuous (and moreover, Lipschitz(1), think why); by compactness, it has the least value. Boris (talk) 17:39, 10 May 2016 (UTC)