Vietnam was able to limit its total coronavirus cases to 2,800 during the first year of the pandemic, but in the last two months, the country has recorded some 22,000 new cases as they had begun to ease up on their restrictions. Indonesia has recorded about 2.2 million cases and 58,995 deaths overall. The imposed emergency measures will stand until July 20 to contain an exponential spike in coronavirus cases that has strained the medical system, but the trend in rising cases may extend that date. In the last two weeks alone, the seven-day rolling averages of daily cases and deaths both more than doubled.Ī partial lockdown was imposed on July 3, but the current wave of cases, mostly on the islands of Java, Bali, and a few cities on the island of Sumatra, will soon start to spread across the vast archipelago. More than 90 percent of the country's 317,506 confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths have occurred since the beginning of April of this year.īangkok and the surrounding area have imposed stricter restrictions, including closing spas, limiting the hours of public transit, and restricting the opening times of markets and convenience stores, reported the Associated Press.Īccording to reports, no country in the Asia-Pacific region has been hit harder by COVID recently than Indonesia. Record levels of COVID cases in Thailand have surged amid the spreading Delta variant and low vaccination pushes, and health authorities announced that the death toll rose to 2,534 Friday. Health officials announced 9,276 new COVID-19 cases Friday and 72 new deaths. Last Friday, the country of Thailand announced they have added a nightly curfew onto the country's restrictions, which went into effect on Monday. Spectators have already been banned at most venues at the upcoming Olympics. With the Olympics just a week away, Japan has set restrictions and placed itself under a state of emergency in place in order to anticipate the big event. People are advised to stay home as much as possible, schools are recommended to switch to remote learning, social gatherings are restricted to two people after 6 p.m, and most public spaces are limited or closed down. Seoul is under a level 4 lockdown, the strictest restrictions the capital has seen in the pandemic so far in order to curb the spread.
"We're extremely concerned the virus would spread further," said Interior and Safety Minister Jeon Hae-cheol in an intra-agency COVID-19 meeting, "as there are clear signs of increased outside activity among the people, and a rising number of cases of the strongly transmissible Delta variant." Two deaths have been reported so far, but they are the first recorded in the country this year.Ĭases are spiking in South Korea, where last week the recorded number of infections reached 1,316 last week.ĭata from The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) showed that nearly 81 percent of the locally transmitted cases came from Seoul, the capital of South Korea, and the surrounding areas. Reuters reported that of the more than 900 people in New South Wales who have been infected during the latest outbreak, 73 have been moved to a hospital, with at least 19 people in intensive care.
The Australian state of Victoria went into lockdown Thursday.īerejiklian announced last Friday that this is now the "scariest period" of the pandemic yet for Sydney, as she announced new restrictions in the city after reporting at least 44 new cases. The state of New South Wales detected the Delta variant last month, and on Friday, New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian, declared new restrictions in Sydney. Numerous countries in the Asia-Pacific region are commencing lockdowns due to rising surges in COVID-19 cases from the Delta variant, a highly contagious strain of COVID that is dominating rising numbers all over the world.Īuthorities in countries including South Korea, Australia, and Thailand have seen increasingly rising cases and deaths from the more infectious variant, and lockdown measures have been imposed in the last week in an attempt to slow the spread.Īccording to Reuters, nearly half of Australia's population of 25 million is currently under lockdown.
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