Coronavirus real-time news: India’s number of new cases is the lowest in six weeks; Japan is expected to extend restrictions World News

Hello everyone, and welcome to watch today’s live report on the coronavirus pandemic, Helen Sullivan.

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India reported 186,364 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours on Friday, the lowest single-day increase since April 14, while the death toll increased by 3,660.

According to the Ministry of Health data, the number of infections in this South Asian country is currently 27.56 million and the death toll is 318,895.

Simultaneously Japan The state of emergency is expected to be extended coronavirus According to officials, the measures in Tokyo and several other areas will be advanced about three weeks because the country is working to control the fourth wave of infections, less than two months before the outbreak. Olympics.

Here are the main developments in the past few hours:

• Argentina reported a record number of 41,080 new Covid-19 cases in a single day on Thursday, The second wave of infections made the country one of the worst-hit countries in the world, pushing the local healthcare system to its limits.
• Africa needs to vaccinate at least 20 million doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine within six weeks. The WHO said on Thursday.
• As many as three-quarters of the new coronavirus cases in the UK are believed to be caused by a mutation first discovered in India. Matt Hancock said on Thursday that as the number of reports more than doubled to nearly 7,000.
• The United States on Thursday called on the World Health Organization to conduct a second phase of investigation into the origin of the coronavirus. Independent experts have full access to China’s original data and samples.
• The U.S. intelligence community admits that its agency has two theories on the origin of Covid-19, There is an element that uses possible laboratory accidents as the source of the pandemic.
• US President Joe Biden stated that he might release a report detailing the findings of the US intelligence community’s investigation into the origin of Covid-19.
• Sweden will advance its plan to relax some Covid restrictions from June 1st, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said.
• Germany plans to provide sufficient Covid vaccine doses for all children 12 years and older by the end of August, The draft document of the Ministry of Health shows.