Coronavirus live news: Japan set to extend state of emergency as Sydney records deadliest pandemic day
Japan is reportedly set to extend it state of emergency in Tokyo and other regions while Sydney has reported seven deaths over the past 24 hours, its deadliest day of the pandemic so far
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Thailand downgraded its economic growth forecast for 2021 on Monday as it battles its worst Covid-19 wave, which has brought record numbers of new infections and deaths.
The kingdom last year suffered its worst full-year performance since the Asian financial crisis of 1997 with a 6.1 percent economic contraction, reports Agence France-Presse.
This crisis caused by the pandemic is unlike the financial crises of 1997 and 2009 – our estimation is based on domestic causes.
But if the pandemic continues and relaxation cannot start in the fourth quarter… the growth could be lower than 0.7 percent.
If you missed it, here’s Alexandra Villarreal’s reporting from Austin, Texas in the United States, where there are only five ICU beds left in a region of almost 2.4 million and masks are still not compulsory in public places.
Related: The Texas Covid crisis worsens – why is the governor resisting masks?
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