TOKYO/SYDNEY: COVID-19 infections are increasing worldwide, with 126 countries and regions, around 70% of the world, reporting expanding cases on Friday, marking the percentage since early April.
Nikkei reviewed johns hopkins University’s knowledge and calculated the number of countries and regions that recorded new highs or increases during the following week.
Of 188 countries and regions, they had an upward trend in May. This number has now reached 126.
Forty European countries, or about 80% of the continent’s nations, are on the rise. In Asia and Oceania, it’s almost 70%.
With the pandemic with no symptoms of relief, countries face the challenge of balancing the reopening of their economies with infection prevention.
Spain in particular is experiencing significant increases. Currently, the number of new instances is approximately 8 times higher than in June. Australia also recently posted a new daily high, peaking at the end of March.
One of the reasons for accumulation in cases is the accumulation in the tests.
In early April, the percentage of positive instances compared to the total number of tests more than 20% in the United States and more than 7% in Japan. The average rate fell to about 2% in July for 88 countries and regions that supply the percentage of positive instances.
According to Max Roser, a researcher at the University of Oxford, 3% is the threshold that indicates that a country is experiencing an uptrend. Of the countries that provided the percentage of cases, part reported figures above 3%
Nine European countries, in addition to Spain and Belgium, report case-by-test relationships above this threshold. Japan saw the proportion below 1% in June, but is now around 5%. This can mean that infections spread at a faster rate than tests.
In Europe, countries imposed serious restrictions on movements in April and May, minimizing new cases. In recent months, the region’s economies have gradually reopened.
However, according to the German Robert Koch Institute, new infections occur in the circle of family parties, in recreational facilities and in offices. Many countries have also lifted restrictions on foreigners since June, leading to a resurgence of the virus.
As a result, many countries are tightening restrictions on movement again. On Friday, countries and regions re-imposed measures such as a ban on meetings and final entertainment facilities.
Twenty-five countries in Europe and 19 countries and regions in Asia and Oceania have restricted movement restrictions or blockades. Several countries have implemented policies that are concentrated in regions where the number of instances is expanding this time, while imposing national blockades on the first wave of infections.
The imposition of national restrictions and blockades of movement has seriously broken economies, so the government is seeking new measures to prevent infections that will not absolutely stifle economic activity.
Some European countries are looking for so-called wise locks. In West Germany, a movement restriction was implemented in Gutersloh County in June, when a large outbreak occurred at a local food processing plant.
Federal and local governments agreed on a new strategy to impose a blockade; will only apply restrictions on the county involved or in a smaller domain and strictly access and exit others from there. A similar measure has been taken in the Spanish region of Catalonia. On Friday, the British government announced that it would put in place social estrangement measures, such as banning house meetings in about 20 domains.
For foreign travelers, countries seek to avoid some other general traffic disruption. Italy had been welcoming other people from the European Union since early June, but on 24 July it imposed a mandatory two-week quarantine era on travellers from Romania and Bulgaria, where cases are on the rise.
In Australia, the state of Queensland has to allow some domestic travelers, but it has excluded those from Victoria and Sydney, where infections are on the rise.
In Japan, the Tokyo metropolitan area has called for restaurants to close at 10 p.m.
While there is hope that these experimental measures will have a positive effect on virus control, time will tell you the maximum effective equipment as governments and municipalities seek the right balance between allowing economic activity and preventing the spread of the disease.
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