Tokyo 3rd emergency declaration
The pneumonia epidemic in Wuhan continues to spread internationally, and the Japanese government declared a state of emergency for the third time on the occasion of the opening of the Tokyo Olympics in just three months. At the same time, India is on the verge of collapse due to the second wave of the epidemic triggered by a double variant of the virus, with the medical system on the verge of collapse and a serious lack of oxygen supply in major hospitals, threatening to cause more patients to die.
Fearing that the upcoming Golden Week holiday will cause the epidemic to expand again, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga issued a third “Declaration of Emergency” for Tokyo, Osaka, Hyogo and Kyoto, with a deadline from the 25th to the 11th of May this month. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, Japan has issued two emergency declarations in early April last year and in mid-January this year, both of which lasted for more than a month.
The company’s main goal is to prevent the increase in the number of people infected during the Golden Week by adopting a “short-term focused” approach of about two weeks. The city of Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, has also launched “priority measures to prevent the spread of the disease” equivalent to the quasi-emergency declaration, and other prefectures that have issued such measures include Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa, Aichi, Okinawa and Miyagi, and the deadline for lifting them is also until May 11.
On the other hand, India’s official statistics show that the number of confirmed cases in a single day on the 23rd exceeded more than 323,000, breaking the global record of new cases in a single day set by the United States in January this year for two consecutive days, and the number of new deaths exceeded 2,200.
Due to the severe shortage of oxygen supply in major hospitals in India, the number of patients dying due to insufficient medical resources is expected to increase rapidly. The capital of New Delhi’s largest private hospital chain Max Smart to accommodate more than 700 patients, but 23 hospital oxygen supply only less than an hour left, the emergency external help. The Times of India said, New Delhi’s Ganga Rama Hospital due to lack of oxygen, in the past 24 hours, 25 patients with severe lung disease died, 60 people in critical condition.
Russia’s national work stoppage for 11 days
In Russia, President Vladimir Putin said on May 23 that he would order a nationwide work stoppage from May 1 to 11 to stop the spread of the epidemic. Russian health authorities have so far put the death toll from the outbreak at more than 107,000, but new figures from the Federal Statistical Service put the number at more than 224,000. If correct, Russia will be the third deadliest country in the world, after the United States and Brazil.
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