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Japan is struggling to hold the line against the growing threat of the coronavirus pandemic, the country’s prime minister has warned, with a risk of a surge in Covid-19 cases.
So far the country has 2,200 coronavirus cases and 66 deaths, relatively few compared to other nations, but infections are rising. There were 105 reported on Wednesday, 65 of them in the capital, Tokyo.
Many experts expressed very strong sense of crisis and opinions over the spread of infections in Tokyo and the current state of medical preparedness. We must prevent infections from spreading further no matter what. We have come to the edge of edges, to the very brink.”
A smartphone app designed to keep tabs on people who have been ordered to stay at home because of the coronavirus has been unveiled in Russia, as the country expands its lockdown.
In Moscow – the centre of Russia’s Covid-19 outbreak where a partial lockdown was announced on Sunday – authorities have developed a smartphone app for residents who have contracted the virus to download that would allow them to be monitored, Reuters report.
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