Covid 19 Lockdowns Curfews Alcohol Bans As Nations Around The World Fight Resurgent Virus



(CNA) – Countries across the world tightened restrictions on their populations on Saturday (Jan 2) to fight a resurgence of COVID-19, as the European Union offered to help drug companies expand vaccine production to deal with distribution “bottlenecks”.
From local curfews to alcohol bans and complete lockdowns, governments are trying to tackle a surge in cases.
The coronavirus has killed more than 1.8 million people globally since emerging in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP.
But experts fear the worst is yet to come, predicting a sharp rise in infections and deaths after weeks of holiday gatherings.
French police booked hundreds of New Year revellers on Saturday for flouting anti-COVID-19 measures at an illegal rave.
In Bangkok, the city’s nightlife shut down following a ban on bars, nightclubs and restaurant alcohol sales, among a raft of restrictions aimed at curbing Thailand’s rising virus toll.
Public schools in the Thai capital are to close for two weeks.
An outbreak last month at a seafood market has led to a resurgence of the virus in the kingdom, with infections detected in 53 of its 77 provinces.
In Tokyo, the city’s governor on Saturday asked Japan’s government to declare a new state of emergency as the country battles a third wave of COVID-19, with record numbers of new cases.
And South Korea extended its anti-virus curbs until Jan 17 in the greater Seoul area, including a ban on gatherings of more than four people, which will be widened to cover the whole country.
VACCINE RACE
The soaring number of infections around the world means the race to vaccinate is set to dominate the coming year.
Delays in getting the vaccines in Europe were not the fault of the European Union, said the bloc’s health commissioner Stella Kyriakides.
“The bottleneck at the moment is not the volume of orders but the worldwide shortage of production capacity,” she said.
The bloc would help drug companies in their efforts to expand production, she added.
“The situation will improve step by step.”
India on Saturday staged nationwide drills to start one of the world’s biggest coronavirus vaccination programmes as its drug regulator approved the AstraZeneca-Oxford University shot.
In the United States, the vaccination programme has been beset by logistical problems, while the world’s worst-hit country on Friday passed 20 million cases.
The US has seen a worrying surge in COVID-19 infections in recent months, and on Saturday saw its highest number yet recorded in one day, with more than 277,000.
In Russia, health minister Mikhail Murashko said more than 800,000 people had received the domestically produced Sputnik V vaccine and that 1.5 million doses had been distributed throughout the country of around 147 million.
The Kremlin has held back on imposing nationwide virus restrictions, instead placing its hopes on the mass vaccination drive to end the pandemic and save its struggling economy.
The French government, facing the threat of a new wave of COVID-19 infections, lengthened an overnight curfew by two hours in parts of the country to help combat the virus.
The curfew will start at 6pm rather than 8pm in parts of France, mainly in the country’s east. Paris has, for now, been spared the additional restriction.
“WE HAD TO PARTY”
The new French restrictions came as police booked more than 1,200 revellers on Saturday when an illegal rave in north-western France finally ended after more than two days of partying that saw clashes with police.
Around 800 of them were booked for flouting anti-virus measures, and the regional health authority in Brittany noted a “high risk of the spread of COVID-19” at the event.
“We knew what we were risking … we had to party, for a year everything has been stuck,” said a 20-year-old waitress.
Spanish police broke up another gathering on Saturday near Barcelona, where 300 people had been partying for more than 40 hours.
And footballers were also among those caught breaking the rules, with Tottenham’s Erik Lamela, Sergio Reguilon and Giovani Lo Celso to be disciplined after a picture emerged of them attending a large party.
Norway, which has one of the lowest infection rates in Europe, on Saturday began requiring COVID-19 tests upon arrival into the country, after finding five cases of a new coronavirus variant that first emerged in Britain.
Denmark discovered 86 cases of the new variant, which is believed to be more contagious, while Vietnam also detected the strain.
The tiny British enclave of Gibraltar, which borders Spain, went into a 14-day lockdown on Saturday. Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said the virus was spreading “more quickly than we can control it”.
Greece has extended its strict two-month lockdown measures until Jan 10, ending an easing of restrictions over the holiday period.
In Lebanon, medics warned that hospitals were being overwhelmed by COVID-19 cases, in the wake of end-of-year holidays.
But in Australia, the finishing touches were being put on a glitzy show at the Sydney Opera House on Saturday, as the venue prepared to host an opera crowd for the first time since March following a virus hiatus.
 


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