The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating in some parts of the world and threatening to come roaring back in others
A health worker takes a swab sample from a man to test for COVID-19, in Chennai, India, on July 17, 2020.A return of stringent coronavirus restrictions in Israel, another daily record of reported cases in Japan’s capital and outbreaks in remote areas such as China’s Xinjiang region underscored Friday the ongoing battle to quash COVID-19 flare-ups as the world’s latest hot spots pushed the confirmed global case tally toward 14 million.
Stores, malls, barber shops, beauty salons, beaches and tourist sites will also be closed on weekends. Public gatherings will be limited to 10 people indoors or 20 outside. Like elsewhere around the world, the recent infections have triggered concerns that the government moved to ramp up the Japanese economy too quickly. Many governments – national, regional and local – have been rolling back reopenings and tightening restrictions to try to stave off more waves of new cases.
Authorities were hoping that fresh controls might bring the infection count to a plateau, as Melbourne reported a record 428 new COVID-19 cases on Friday. The prime minister’s decision to give employers more leeway to ask their staffs to return to regular work locations appeared to conflict with the views of his chief scientific adviser, who said Thursday that there was “absolutely no reason” to change the work-from-home advice.
The continuing surge of new cases in India drove home concerns over the readiness of some countries to cope with outbreaks that could overwhelm hospitals and test feeble health care systems. The government ordered a week-long lockdown in the technology hub of Bangalore after confirmed cases there increased exponentially.
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