— The global COVID-19 death toll has crossed four million, with the worst of the pandemic only just starting to hit some parts of the Asia-Pacific and cases rising again in the United States.
“The more infectious Delta variant now accounts for around 30 percent of cases,” Japan’s virus response minister Yasutoshi Nishimura had said before the emergency announcement. The surge has forced South Korean authorities to consider imposing the tightest restrictions, under which all public events would be banned.
And while many wealthy nations, spurred by rapid vaccination programs, have started easing and even entirely eliminating restrictions, the WHO urged “extreme caution”.
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