Amid the coronavirus epidemic, government officials in Beijing urged residents not to leave the city, Japan banned all new entry of foreign nationals until January, and South Korea filed the largest case on Christmas Day.
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A nurse collects a nasal swab sample from a car driver at the Covid-19 Coronavirus PCR testing center at Fujimino Emergency Hospital on December 18, 2020 in Miyoshi-Machi, Japan. The Tokyo metropolitan government today confirmed 664 new cases of coronavirus, down from a record high of 822 yesterday.
China, Japan and South Korea are pushing for tougher lockdown measures before 2021, even though none of them are ranked in the world in the case of Covid-1 cases or deaths. Public health officials in Beijing told residents not to leave until February during the lunar New Year holiday. And last week new restrictions were imposed following some new coronavirus infections. December 25 saw its smallest daily increase in the United States, while South Korea recorded 1,241 new infections, its largest daily spike.
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More than 15,000 new cases have been added to South Korea in the last 15 days, simultaneously with the two-week period since the outbreak began. Meanwhile, Chinese officials have canceled all major gatherings, including sporting events, during the New Year on February 12, while all theaters, museums and libraries are operating at 75 percent capacity.
Public health reactions were widely accepted around the world in both South Korea and Japan in the early months of the epidemic, but now many scientists worry that such confidence is moving into the new year. Officials from those two countries said strict lockdown measures were needed as the transition left behind efforts to expand the hospital.
“Our hospital system is not collapsing, but the reduction of Kovid-19 patients has significantly hampered our response,” said Choi Won-suk, a professor of infectious diseases at Korea University’s Anson Hospital. Saturday.
“We have patients with all sorts of serious illnesses in our ICU and they can’t share any space with Covid-19 patients, so it’s difficult,” Choi said. “These are the same medical staff who have been fighting the virus all these months. Fatigue is freezing.”
In Japan, final arrangements are being made to ban the entry of all non-Japanese citizens by January 1. Currently, only Japanese and foreign nationals are allowed to enter the country – all must be kept separate for 14 days after arrival. . As Reuters reported on Saturday, Japan confirmed 3,823 new infections on Friday, the third straight day.
Japan has so far failed to reach Europe or the US. At a comparable level, coronavirus outbreaks have been avoided, with only 215,000 known infections and about 3,200 deaths reported. According to Johns Hopkins University, U.S. In about 330,000 deaths are tied to the virus and there are more than 18 million confirmed cases.
Despite new sanctions and public health concerns in the region, the U.S., India, Brazil and Russia remain among the most infected countries in the world. But officials in Japan and the United Kingdom have reported the first cases of both the new Covid-19 variant, raising concerns that vaccinations and other therapies may soon become ineffective.
British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on 14 December that his country’s COVID-19 cases could be linked to strains of the virus, of which 1000 case variants have been identified.
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