La mégalopole portuaire de Tianjin, à l’est de Pékin, a lancé ce dimanche une campagne de dépistage Covid auprès de ses 14 millions d’habitants. Une vingtaine d’infections ont été rapportées depuis samedi, dont deux cas Omicron. Les autorités ne veulent rien laisser au hasard, la ville se trouve à 30 minutes en train de la capitale chinoise qui attend les JO.
Okinawa, Hiroshima and Yamaguchi prefectures ready to impose curbs on activity
TOKYO — Japan is set to allow the governors of three prefectures, including Okinawa, to enact restrictions on social activities as community spread of the omicron variant of COVID-19 becomes more prevalent, the government announced on Thursday.
NAHA–Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki said he is considering asking the central government to declare pre-emergency measures to stem the latest surge in novel coronavirus infections in the prefecture. Tamaki told a news conference on Jan. 4 that he believes the sixth wave of COVID-19 has already hit Okinawa Prefecture.
Le premier le premier cas d’infection par le variant Omicron (Covid-19) était sorti de l’hôpital le 2 janvier après avoir été testé négatif au coronavirus un jour plus tôt.
En Chine, le variant Omicron n’est pas encore là, les quelques cas déclarés pour l’instant l’ont été lors des quarantaines de plus de deux semaines imposées aux voyageurs à l’arrivée.Cela n’empêche pas le pays de se barricader à nouveau : depuis quatre jours, les 13 millions d’habitants de la ville de Xi’an sont confinés et des centaines de vols ont été annulés dans tout le pays.
TOKYO — Following the emergence of the coronavirus’s omicron variant, Japan has enforced border control measures which in principle ban new entries by foreign nationals. Now, people separated from their families are calling on the government to attend to cases on humanitarian grounds while also taking thorough safety measures to prevent infection.
Time and time again, the pandemic has made a mockery of our plans, a fact we should be familiar with by now yet still manage to be taken aback by. Such was the case for me when I was back in the U.K. in late November and early December to see family and friends for the first time in over two years.
– Man entered the country and repeatedly tested negative for Covid-19 during his 14 days in quarantine before returning positive result
– China reported the first imported Omicron case in Tianjin on Monday
– Manzhouli, on the border with Russia, remains the epicentre of the country’s latest Covid-19 outbreak
– A further 27 local symptomatic cases in the city take its total to 396 from eight rounds of daily testing
– Health officials say all countries with reported infections of the new variant will be moved to highest-risk tier for entry
– Government pandemic adviser says border reopening plan should remain safe if new variants caught before entering city, though others fear strategy may worry Beijing
