Yasutoshi Nishimura, minister in charge of Japan's COVID-19 response, speaks during a meeting in Tokyo on July 30, 2021.... " It appears that rail and airline reservations for the Bon holiday( in August) are up 20-30% from last year's," Nishimura went on.... " That could raise the real risk of bringing infections from big cities to regional areas."( Japanese original by Aoi Hanazawa, Political New Department) Font Size S M L Print Timeline 0....

experienced the three previous waves gradually, but in the fourth wave cases have jumped overnight," said

previous variants.... Emerging evidence indicates that omicron spreads more easily, which is

higher peak than previous variants, even if immunity from severe disease continues. Hospitals in South

advised the rakyat to brace for a second wave of floods while the government has been instructed to

The wave of protests in Latin America is an expression of today’s global civil unrest by working

wave of Covid-19 infections and heading into this year even stronger than before the pandemic

per day before a potential third wave of coronavirus infections that is expected to hit the country

Up to 11, 800 people caught Covid in British hospitalsinthe first virus wave last year, a major

, government scientists said as they warned that restrictions may not work as well as in previous waves