Japan declared a new state of emergency in Tokyo and many other places on Friday as the Tokyo Summer Olympics are just three months away. India, which has a weak medical system, is under the siege of a new epidemic and is again in a major health crisis due to the “Indian variant of the virus”. In one day, 330,000 new cases were diagnosed, with 2,000 deaths, and the variant has been found in Belgium, which is starting to worry Europe.
With three months to go before the Tokyo Summer Olympics, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declared a state of emergency in Tokyo and four other places from Sunday until May 11. Unlike the previous three “states of emergency”, which only required stores to reduce their hours of operation, this one requires stores selling alcohol to close, as well as other large stores and some commercial centers.
Despite the confidence of the organizers, the slow pace of inoculation in Japan has caused many people to doubt whether Japan can hold the Summer Olympics as usual. According to the latest figures, only 1.5 million people in Japan have received the first dose and nearly 830,000 have received the second dose. That is, less than 0.7 percent of the total population has been vaccinated.
In India, the epidemic is extremely serious and complex, with 3.5 million more people newly infected with the new coronavirus since the beginning of April due to the emergence of a “double mutation virus” and mass religious celebrations.
In New Delhi, many hospitals are short of oxygen and an urgent appeal has been made to the central government to urgently provide reserve oxygen to the thousands of patients hospitalized.
A hospital in New Delhi was starved of oxygen for half an hour due to a ventilator, resulting in 22 deaths on Thursday. In Mumbai, another 13 people died Friday in a fire at a suburban hospital.
To add insult to injury, the Indian variant of the virus is spreading. Belgium has announced that it has just discovered an “Indian variant of the virus,” causing concern in Europe, which is preparing to ease its embargo. 21 Indian students who arrived in Belgium through Charles de Gaulle Airport in France in mid-April have tested positive for the Indian variant of the virus.
The United States has advised its citizens not to travel to India, even for those who have been vaccinated, and Canada has decided to suspend flights to and from India and Pakistan within 30 days.
The United Kingdom has announced a ban on Indian tourists, while France has announced a 10-day in situ quarantine for Indian tourists entering the country.
European Commission President von der Leyen announced on Friday that he hopes to have 70 percent of all citizens in Europe vaccinated by July. The vaccination campaign is now beginning to bear fruit, with the U.S. president announcing that 200 million people will be vaccinated by his 100th day in office.
The global death toll from the New Coronavirus, which broke out in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, stands at 3073,969.
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