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COVID-19 cases in the Asian continent is higher, not only Indonesia, a number of countries are experiencing an increase in cases. Recently, Japan and Vietnam carried out social restrictions on cities that were worst affected by the corona virus. Japan has declared a state of emergency in Tokyo while Vietnam has locked down Ho Chi Minh City.
“We will impose a state of emergency in Tokyo. The period will be until August 22,” Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said at a government meeting on infection measures.
More details Japanese Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said the state of emergency in Tokyo would start from July 12 to August 22. He also said there would be restrictions applied in restaurants.
“Japan will declare a state of emergency for Tokyo, which will host the Olympics, to try to contain a new wave of coronavirus infections,” he said.
“Under the tightened restrictions, restaurants will be asked to stop serving alcohol. This decision was taken after last Wednesday Tokyo reported the highest record transmission of the coronavirus since May. There were 920 daily infections,” he said.
Concerns are also now mounting after several health facilities in the world’s most populous city reported more infections of the more dangerous Delta variant. The Delta variant is a new strain of coronavirus discovered in India and is highly contagious.
Meanwhile, the Japanese government and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) are finalizing proposals on the allowed number of spectators. Previously, it was agreed that the audience would be limited to only domestic viewers with a total capacity of 50%.
But this proposal is likely to be scaled back after medical advisory experts have said that the Games, which will be held from July 23 to August 8, are better off without spectators.
Cumulatively, as of Thursday (7/8) Japan found 810,000 cases of COVID-19 with 14,000 deaths since the pandemic hit. The current active cases are 16,177.
Meanwhile, Vietnam, took the decision to lock down Ho Chi Minh City starting today. This was done after there were 8,000 additional cases during the new wave of corona. Lockdown will be carried out to suppress the spread of the increasingly virulent COVID-19 virus. Residents were asked to stay at home for two weeks.
Quoted from Channel News Asia, the Mayor of Ho Chi Minh City, Nguyen Thanh, said that the control of COVID-19 in Ho Chi Minh must be fast. Authorities should tighten restrictions on community activities. In order to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control quickly, Ho Chi Minh City is determined to further tighten restrictions.
During the lockdown, people are allowed to leave their homes only to buy food and medicine. Apart from that, the government requires its citizens to stay at home.
So far, Vietnam has vaccinated 4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for its people. In addition, Vietnam is also developing a COVID-19 vaccine and ordering millions of doses of vaccine from the United States. [sources/photo special]
