Rise in cases driven by fast-spreading Delta variant
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Mortuary technicians in PPE transfer a sealed bag containing a body infected with Covid-19 into a cold-storage shipping container that was brought in to store additional bodies with the lack of space in the mortuary at Thammasat University Hospital in Pathum Thani province in the north of Bangkok on July 28, 2021 in Pathum Thani, Thailand.
Police in Sydney closed train stations, banned taxis from dropping passengers off downtown and deployed 1,000 officers to set up checkpoints and to disperse groups. A day earlier Japan extended its state of emergency for Tokyo to the end of August and expanded it to three prefectures near the capital and to the western prefecture of Osaka.
Malaysia, one of the hotspots of the disease, reported 17,786 coronavirus cases on Saturday, a record high.More than 100 people gathered in the centre of Kuala Lumpur expressing dissatisfaction with the government’s handling of the pandemic and calling on Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to quit. The government said the Delta variant accounted for more than 60% of the cases in the country and 80% of the cases in Bangkok. The variant is not necessarily more lethal than other variants, but much more transmissible, said Supakit Sirilak, the director-general of Thailand’s Department of Medical Sciences.
COVID-19 infections have increased by 80% over the past four weeks in most regions of the world, WHO Director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday.
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