Asia battles second wave of coronavirus with fresh lockdowns

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Countries around Asia are confronting a second wave of coronavirus infections and are clamping down again to try to contain the disease, with Australia recording a record daily rise in cases and Vietnam locking down the city of Danang.

FILE PHOTO: Two people are tested at the windows of a testing vehicle, following a new outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Beijing, China, June 30, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Hong Kong is expected to announce further restrictions on Monday including a ban on restaurant dining and mandated face masks outdoors, local media reported. Most of Australia is effectively virus-free but flare-ups in the two most populous southeastern states have authorities scrambling to prevent a wider national outbreak.

Japan has avoided mass infections but a record surge in cases during the past week in Tokyo and other urban centres has experts worried the country faces a second wave. The Southeast Asian country is back on high alert after the government on Saturday confirmed its first community infections since April, and another three cases on Sunday, all in Danang.

North Korean state media reported on the weekend that the border town of Kaesong was in lockdown after a person who defected to South Korea three years ago returned this month with symptoms of COVID-19.North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened an emergency politburo meeting in response to what he called a “critical situation in which the vicious virus could be said to have entered the country”, the KCNA state news reported.

 

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All these countries locking down with new infections of anywhere upto and over 100. We are at 700 a day and relaxing everything left right and centre

Why? The first ones didn't work. Lock downs DO NOT WORK.

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