Monday’s news that Japan detected its first case of the highly transmissible XE variant of the coronavirus adds another concern for the government, which is struggling to raise vaccination rates among young people as infection levels remain high nationwide and are surging in mostly rural prefectures.
Merely two months after the peak of the sixth wave, coronavirus infections are already rebounding in Japan, with experts again urging people to stay vigilant by getting vaccine booster shots, wearing masks and avoiding crowded places.
– Studies in various countries suggest China’s inactivated vaccines may be less effective overall than other jabs but protect against severe illness or death
– Some nations have wavered about administering the vaccines, but experts say they do help governments in need fight the coronavirus
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.
Before the Olympics began, Japan had feared that the 2020 Games, with thousands of officials, media and athletes descending on Tokyo in the middle of a pandemic, might spread COVID-19, introduce new variants and overwhelm the medical system.
For many Japanese, an air of unreality hung over the Tokyo Olympics, held under the shadow of a once-in-a-century global pandemic.
La Permanence du Secrétariat a envoyé un télégramme exigeant de continuer à renforcer la prévention et le contrôle du COVID-19 aux organes concernées.
China’s inactivated vaccines against COVID-19 are exceptionally agile at tackling emerging variants and domestic vaccine manufacturers are fully prepared to update their shots, health experts and drugmakers have said.
Les huit variants du virus SARS-CoV-2 présents au Vietnam jusqu’au 29 mai.
The Japanese government plans to extend the COVID-19 state of emergency set to expire at the end of May in Tokyo and eight prefectures to June 20, a senior official said Thursday.
De 06h00 à 12h00 jeudi 27 mai, 53 nouveaux cas d’infection par le SARS-CoV-2 ont été détectés au Vietnam, portant le nombre total à 6.164, selon le ministère de la Santé.
Le Vietnam a détecté 7 nouvelles variantes du SARS-CoV-2 après le séquençage génétique d’échantillons de cas importés dans le pays.
Le 10 mai 2021, l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé a classé B.1.617, le variant du SARS-CoV-2 découvert en Inde, comme « variant préoccupant au niveau mondial ».
De 06h00 à 18h00 dimanche 9 mai, le Vietnam a détecté 87 nouveaux cas de coronavirus, portant le nombre total à 3.332.
– Soumya Swaminathan warned that ‘the epidemiological features that we see in India … indicate that it’s an extremely rapidly spreading variant’
– India on Saturday for the first time registered more than 4,000 Covid-19 deaths in just 24 hours, and more than 400,000 new infections
