– Heilongjiang in the country’s northeast continues to report the most infections, but 19 areas are now affected
– Respiratory disease expert Zhong Nanshan said case numbers should ease within 30 days, based on previous outbreaks
Tous les quartiers de cette ville du nord-ouest du pays vont être soumis à une “gestion fermée” avec un strict contrôle des déplacements.
– The 28 local cases reported on Sunday are the lowest daily tally in the past seven days of the outbreak
– Vice-Premier Sun Chunlan visits three affected cities and stresses the need for strict controls to halt community spread
The first case in Japan involving a new mutation of the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus — of which only eight cases have been reported so far worldwide — has been confirmed, according to researchers.
La Chine a beau se revendiquer comme un modèle dans la lutte contre la pandémie, plusieurs spécialistes du pays estiment qu’il va falloir se résoudre comme les autres pays à cohabiter avec le coronavirus. C’est ce que pense le virologue Feng Zijian, interrogé par l’hebdomadaire Zhongguo Xinwen Zhoukan.
– A fourth straight day of single-figure local cases raises hopes the surge fuelled by the Delta variant is being brought under control
– However, more imported cases were reported highlighting the ongoing risk of more infections
What began in late June as a COVID-19 rebound in Tokyo has escalated within weeks into a nationwide surge, forcing the central government to enact the country’s strictest measures in more than a dozen of its largest prefectures.
– Most of the 30 infections reported in the eastern city of Yangzhou where a strict lockdown is in effect
– City offers rewards for reporting residents evading mass testing
The Tokyo metropolitan area’s health care system is rapidly becoming strained, as a shortage of medical staff is making it increasingly difficult for hospitals and quarantine facilities to take in more people with COVID-19.
Hospital beds for COVID-19 patients are increasingly in short supply as the rapidly growing outbreak in the Tokyo metropolitan region continues to inundate the local health care system with new cases.
For many Japanese, an air of unreality hung over the Tokyo Olympics, held under the shadow of a once-in-a-century global pandemic.
With hospitals under strain, many forced to recover in close quarters with family
TOKYO — When her husband came down with COVID-19 last month, a Tokyo woman in her 30s was stymied by the instructions she received for at-home treatment from the local health bureau.
The government’s new policy of providing hospital treatment only for COVID-19 patients in serious condition or at high risk of becoming severely ill has sparked criticism that other infected people are being “abandoned.”
Les autorités chinoises signalent plusieurs foyers de contaminations au Covid-19 à travers le pays, en raison de la propagation du très contagieux variant Delta. Des confinements ont été réimposés dans plusieurs villes, les restrictions sanitaires reviennent.
Observée initialement auprès de neuf employés de l’aéroport de Nankin, la contagion a désormais touché 171 personnes dans la province du Jiangsu, limitrophe de Shanghai, et a gagné au moins quatre autres provinces.
