This Olympic host city Tokyo, As well as Thailand and Malaysia, published records COVID-19 infection On Saturday, it was mainly driven by the highly spreading Delta variant of the disease.
The surge in Delta variant cases is disrupting parts of Asia that have previously been relatively successful in containing COVID-19, such as Vietnam, which will begin to impose strict restrictions on the movement of people in several cities and provinces from Monday.
Cases in Sydney have also increased sharply, and local police have sealed off the Central Business District to prevent protests from a strict lockdown that will continue until the end of August.
Sydney police closed the train station, prohibited taxis from dropping off passengers in the city centre, and deployed 1,000 police officers to set up checkpoints and disperse the crowd.
The New South Wales Government has reported 210 new infections from Sydney and surrounding areas where the Delta mutation outbreak occurred.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has announced a record 4,058 infections in the past 24 hours. Olympic organizers have reported 21 new cases of COVID-19 related to the Olympics, bringing the total to 241 since July 1.
A day ago, Japan extended the state of emergency in Tokyo until the end of August and extended it to three prefectures near the capital and western Osaka prefectures.
Organizers of the Olympic Games said on Saturday that they had disqualified those involved in the Olympics from leaving the athletes’ village for sightseeing, which violated measures to safely host the Olympics during the pandemic.
The organizers did not disclose how many people were involved, whether this person or people were athletes, or when the violation occurred.
Malaysia is one of the hot spots for the disease, with 17,786 coronavirus cases reported on Saturday, a record high.
More than 100 people gathered in the center of Kuala Lumpur to express dissatisfaction with the government’s response to the epidemic and call on Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to step down.
The protesters held up black flags and placards that read “Kerajaan Gagal” (failed government)-a label that has been popular on social media for several months.
Thailand also reported a record high of 18,912 new coronavirus infections per day, bringing its total number of cases to 597,287. The country also reported 178 new deaths, which is also a daily record.
The government stated that the Delta variant accounted for more than 60% of cases in the country and 80% of cases in Bangkok. Supakit Sirilak, director-general of the Thai Ministry of Medicine, said that this variant is not necessarily more deadly than other variants, but it is easier to spread.
A hospital director said that in the National University Hospital near the capital Bangkok, a morgue overwhelmed by the death of COVID-19 has begun to store corpses in refrigerated containers. The last measure taken was during the 2004 tsunami. .
China is fighting the delta variant virus that broke out in the eastern city of Nanjing, which can be traced back to airport staff cleaning an aircraft arriving from Russia.
Vietnam is struggling to deal with the most serious COVID-19 epidemic, and announced that starting from Monday, it will impose strict restrictions on the movement of people in its commercial center Ho Chi Minh City and 18 other cities and provinces in the south within two weeks.
WHO Director-General Tedros Tedros said on Friday that the COVID-19 infection rate in most parts of the world has increased by 80% in the past four weeks.
Tedros said at the press conference: “The hard-won results are in danger or are disappearing, and the health systems in many countries are overwhelmed.”
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control stated in an internal document reported this week that the Delta variant was originally found in India and is as contagious as chickenpox and much more contagious than the common cold or flu.
-Reported by Panarat Thepgumpanat, Chayut Setboonsarng and Orathai Sriring in Bangkok, A. Ananthalakshmi in Kuala Lumpur, Lidia Kelly in Sydney, Makiko Yamazaki in Tokyo, and Yew Lun Tian in Beijing; works by Raju Gopalakrishnan
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