I can’t afford to put in the self-defense force’s medical staff… Suga approval rating plummeted by 17%P within a month
‘Partial blockade’ 獨 28344 people per day… Merkel agrees to’shutdown’ with local government
China blocks Dongning City on signs of re-proliferation
According to NHK, the number of new confirmed cases in Japan on the 12th was 3041 daily, the highest number since the first infection on January 16th this year. On the 13th, as of 7 pm, 2,369 confirmed cases occurred, and the cumulative confirmed cases and deaths increased to 18,1242 and 2609, respectively. The number of severely ill patients who needed a ventilator was also the highest in history at 583.
As the number of infections has increased rapidly, there are signs of medical collapse everywhere. In Asahikawa, Hokkaido, a group infection occurred in a hospital, and pregnant women and chronically ill patients are struggling because they cannot go to the hospital. The government has even dispatched some medical personnel to the Self-Defense Forces in Hokkaido and Osaka, but has not been able to handle the rapidly increasing number of patients.
Medical experts demanded a temporary suspension of the “struggling travel” policy that subsidizes domestic travel, but Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga drew a line “not thinking” on the 11th. The Japanese government is not even considering an emergency declaration like April or May this year. The Tokyo Newspaper criticized the Suga cabinet’s stage plan through a scrupulous review of the government that emphasized mental armament only when the town was devastated by Corona 19. In a poll by the Mainichi Newspaper that day, the Suga cabinet approval rating was 40%, down 17 percentage points from last month.
View larger-The official Xinhua news agency reported that the access of Dongning City in Heilongjiang Province, where the confirmed case occurred in China, which had been boasting the results of corona 19 quarantine, was completely blocked from the 13th. Residents of Dongning were blocked from entering the city and outsiders were blocked, and public transportation was also stopped. In China, there were 24 new cases (including 19 from overseas) on the 12th. In particular, it is interpreted that when 4 out of 5 domestic confirmed cases came out of Heilongjiang Province, they began a hard-line countermeasure called blockade. Massive vaccinations began in the UK on the 8th, but the situation in Europe as a whole is worsening. According to the international statistics website World Omometer, on the 11th, the number of new confirmed cases in Germany reached 28,344, a daily high. In the last week, the new infection rate per 100,000 people in Germany was 162, exceeding the UK (159), Belgium (133) and France (123). Prime Minister Angela Merkel held a meeting with the local government on the 13th and agreed to a total blockade of closing all stores except grocery stores and pharmacies and closing schools and childcare facilities from the 16th to January 10th next year. It is pointed out that last month, when the second spread in Europe was evident, the UK and France implemented a full blockade, while Germany took only partial blockades, such as restricting some restaurant operations. Deutsche Belle, a public broadcaster, said, “Since each of the 16 states has the authority to cope with the epidemic, the federal government’s systematic quarantine policy has not been implemented.”
Italy became the country with the largest number of deaths in Europe, surpassing the UK (64,026) with a cumulative death toll of 64,036 on the 13th. The cumulative death toll in France (57,761) is also expected to surpass 60,000 sooner or later. The situation in Spain and Russia, where cumulative deaths are close to 50,000, is also not unusual. “The number of deaths is increasing rapidly in countries around the world,” said Theward Ross Governor Yeosus, Secretary General of the World Health Organization (WHO). Please plan carefully for the year-end and New Year holidays.” He warned that Christmas celebrations will turn into’sadness’ if you neglect quarantine ahead of the Christmas holidays.
Tokyo = Park Hyung-jun [email protected] / Paris = Kim Yoon-jong / Beijing = Kim Ki-yong, correspondent
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