Coronavirus real-time news: Tokyo cases hit a record high due to record infections in Thailand, South Korea and Malaysia | World News

Tokyo 3,177 new coronavirus cases have been reported, setting a record high and exceeding 3,000 for the first time within a few days of entering the Olympics.

Experts say this surge is driven by the highly contagious Delta variant.

The number of new cases exceeds the 2,848 recorded the day before. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been 206,745 cases in the city.

Despite widespread public opposition, the Japanese capital has been in a state of emergency for the fourth time since July 12 before the Olympics started last Friday.

Russia An additional 22,420 coronavirus cases have been reported as the country is battling a wave mainly attributed to highly infectious Delta variants and the slow introduction of vaccines.

According to Reuters, Wednesday’s figures brought the national official count to 6,195,232.

The government’s coronavirus task force stated that 798 people have died from coronavirus-related causes in the past 24 hours, bringing the national death toll to 156,178. The number of deaths reported by the Federal Statistical Agency has almost doubled to approximately 290,000, and the agency has conducted its own statistics.

Boris Johnson refuted Michael Gove’s remarks that people who refused to get vaccinated were “selfish.”

When asked about the comments made by the Minister of the Cabinet Office this morning, Labour’s deputy Angela Rayner and the Minister of Work and Pensions Therese Coffey also refused to support Gove’s claims.

The police are Malaysia After a customer spared no effort to order takeaways and send a helicopter more than 100 miles across the country to pick up their meals, the company is investigating suspected violations of coronavirus restrictions.

According to Reuters, the plane landed in Ipoh City, collected 36 copies of rice commonly known as “nasi ganja”, and then returned to Kuala Lumpur, 180 kilometers (110 miles) away.

The country is in a state of lockdown, people mainly stay at home, and travel between states is prohibited unless there are special circumstances.

The police said the helicopter had been approved to fly outside the capital, but it was only used for maintenance, not for food collection. The prosecutor will decide whether to take further action.

This story sparked outrage online, and a social media user wrote on Twitter: “Some people can’t go home to attend… the funeral or the last time to see their loved ones, because it’s not a good reason for them to travel. certificate.”

Mike Tildesley, a professor of infectious disease modelling at the University of Warwick, said the number of infections has fallen recently UK The cases may be because people are reluctant to be tested before summer vacation.

When asked about the decline, a member of the scientific modeling team Spi-M told Time Radio: “Due to the closure of schools in England last week, we did not allow middle school students to undergo lateral mobility tests on a regular basis, so we may not necessarily detect that many cases have occurred. In young people.”

He said that it was also suggested that before the holidays, “people may be reluctant to’strengthen’ testing when they develop symptoms.”

Tildesley emphasized the importance of monitoring the number of hospitalizations, because “the number of hospitalizations always takes a few weeks to get better.” He said that if we start to see enrollment numbers start to decline in August, then “we will have stronger evidence that this third wave is starting to improve.”

Despite the recent decline in the number of daily coronavirus cases, Boris Johnson called for caution.

This UK The Prime Minister told LBC Radio: “We have seen some encouraging recent data. There is no doubt about that, but it is too early to draw any general conclusions.”

He added: “The most important thing is to make people realize that the current situation still needs to be very cautious. People only need to remember that the virus still exists, many people have been infected with it, and it still has a major risk.”

Tokyo In the context of the surge in cases during the Olympics, Governor Yuriko Koike called on young people to be vaccinated and comply with coronavirus restrictions.

Reuters reported that the number of cases rose to 2,848 on Tuesday, surpassing the previous record in January. Koike said that most of the new cases have occurred in young people who have not been vaccinated, while most elderly people have been fully vaccinated.

“Young people’s activities are the key (to slow down the infection), and we need your cooperation,” Koike said. “Please make sure to avoid unnecessary outings and follow basic anti-infective measures. I hope young people will be vaccinated.”

A quarter (25.5%) of Japan’s population has been fully vaccinated, while 68.2% of the elderly are vaccinated.

MalaysiaThe Ministry of Health has reported another 17,405 cases of coronavirus, which is a new daily record.

Reuters reported that the new infection brought the total number of cases in this Southeast Asian country to 1,061,476.

There are also records of more than 8,000 deaths, but experts warn that the true number is much higher due to the low detection rate.

Rainer said people who refused to get vaccinated were not “selfish” and followed the cabinet office minister Michael Gove’s comments Say they are.

“We learned from medical advice that mandatory vaccination is not a viable method,” she told Sky News. “It provides people with information and encouragement to get vaccinated, and we have done that, and we have been incredibly successful.”

“What we want to see is testing so that we can see where the virus is and isolate it” and encourage vaccination.

When asked about people who refused to get vaccinated, Reiner said it was “their personal choice.” “I don’t think this is selfish-what politicians should do is encourage people to talk to their doctors, get the correct information-not the information on the Internet that may actually be incorrect-and get vaccinated.”

After being asked during the broadcast round, Kofi also declined to repeat Gove’s comments.