Cambodia police defend caning of lockdown offenders for breaching COVID-19 rules
FILE PHOTO: A view of an empty street during a 14-day citywide lockdown implemented amid a rising number of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 15, 2021. REUTERS/Cindy Liu reuters tickers
This content was published on April 21, 2021 - 13:17
April 21, 2021 - 13:17
By Prak Chan Thul
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian police defended on Wednesday making arrests and punishing people by beating them using rattan canes for breaching coronavirus restrictions during a two-week lockdown aimed at containing a spike in infections.
The Southeast Asian country still has one of the world s smallest coronavirus caseloads, but an outbreak that started in late February has seen overall cases spike to 7,747 and with 54 deaths.
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan s government is considering a state of emergency for Tokyo and Osaka as new COVID-19 case numbers surge, broadcaster NHK reported on Wednesday, a move that would enable prefectural authorities to impose curbs to try to stop infections spreading. With thousands of new cases resulting from highly infectious strains of the virus, the government is expected to declare the state of emergency this week for the capital and Osaka prefecture, as well as the latter s neighbouring Hyogo prefecture, a number of domestic media outlets reported. Japan has so far avoided the kind of explosive spread of the pandemic that has plagued many Western countries, with total cases so far at about 540,000 and a death toll of 9,707. But the latest rise in infections has stoked alarm, coming just three months before the planned start of the Tokyo Olympics and amid a sluggish vaccination roll-out. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike is preparing to request an emergency period be declared from April
Japan weighs state of emergency for Tokyo, Osaka regions amid virus surge -media
FILE PHOTO: An empty street near the usually crowded Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto, a popular tourist attraction, is pictured amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in Japan, July 21, 2020. REUTERS/Leika Kihara reuters tickers
This content was published on April 21, 2021 - 05:49
April 21, 2021 - 05:49
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan s government is considering a state of emergency for Tokyo and Osaka as new COVID-19 case numbers surge, broadcaster NHK reported on Wednesday, a move that would enable prefectural authorities to impose curbs to try to stop infections spreading.
With thousands of new cases resulting from highly infectious strains of the virus, the government is expected to declare the state of emergency this week for the capital and Osaka prefecture, as well as the latter s neighbouring Hyogo prefecture, a number of domestic media outlets reported.
Austria will only use Sputnik V vaccine after EMA approval, Kurz says
FILE PHOTO: A medical worker poses for a picture while holding a vial with Sputnik V (Gam-COVID-Vac) vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a mobile vaccination centre in the Palace of the Republic concert hall in Almaty, Kazakhstan April 2, 2021. REUTERS/Pavel Mikheyev reuters tickers
This content was published on April 19, 2021 - 11:51
April 19, 2021 - 11:51
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria will only use Russia s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine once the European Medicines Agency has approved it, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Monday, amid growing public frustration with the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations.
Japan s Osaka to ask government to declare state of emergency: governor
FILE PHOTO: Pedestrians wearing protective face masks, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, are seen in front of the Tsutenkaku Tower in Osaka, Japan in this photo taken by Kyodo April 7, 2021. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS reuters tickers
This content was published on April 19, 2021 - 04:05
April 19, 2021 - 04:05
TOKYO (Reuters) - Osaka will ask the Japanese government to declare a state of emergency in an effort to reverse the rise in coronavirus cases, the governor of the country s third-most populous prefecture said on Monday.
Osaka and several other prefectures have been in a quasi-emergency state for two weeks, with targeted measures aimed at controlling the spread of COVID-19.