Published June 28, 2021, 9:20 AM
MOSCOW, Russia – Moscow on Sunday recorded its worst daily coronavirus death toll and South Africa reimposed restrictions for two weeks to combat a surge in the highly contagious coronavirus Delta variant.
Indonesia saw more than 21,000 infections in a day, a record, as countries across the Asia-Pacific region extended or reimposed restrictions to tackle fresh waves of cases.
Even as vaccination drives have brought down infection numbers in many wealthy countries, the Delta strain of the virus remains a concern.
The variant is now in 85 countries and is the most contagious of any COVID-19 strain so far identified, according to the World Health Organization.
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Australian authorities are racing to contain outbreaks of the highly contagious delta strain that have forced two cities into lockdown and put others on high alert as the Covid-19 outbreak in Sydney now numbers 130 cases.
Hong Kong resumed vaccinations after lowering its rainstorm warning while a cluster at Singapore Changi General Hospital doubled to 10 cases.
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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, June 27, 2021.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, Pool) Credit: The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG South Africa has reintroduced tough restrictions including a ban on alcohol sales and an extended nightly curfew as it fights a fast-increasing surge of COVID-19 cases.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says the delta variant that was first discovered in India appears to be driving South Africa’s new increase.
South Africa recorded more than 15,000 new cases Sunday including 122 deaths. That brings its total fatalities to near 60,000.
The country’s most populous province of Gauteng has the brunt of the current surge accounting for about 66% of new infections. The province includes the largest city Johannesburg and the capital Pretoria.
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Czech President Milos Zeman, commenting on a Hungarian law that bans LGBT material from schools, has told a television interview that he finds transgender people disgusting .
Mr Zeman, who has often espoused views outside the mainstream, was responding to a question about the law Hungary passed earlier this month, which bans the dissemination of content in schools deemed to promote homosexuality and gender change. If you undergo a sex change operation you are basically committing a crime of self-harm, Mr Zeman told CNN Prima. Every surgery is a risk and these transgender people to me are disgusting.