TOKYO, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) — The Tokyo metropolitan government on Thursday raised its COVID-19 alert level to the second highest on its four-tier scale owing to the rampant spread of the Omicron variant of the virus around the capital. The scale was lifted one notch by the Tokyo metropolitan government. The alert level hasn’t reached … Read more
COLOMBO, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — Sri Lanka’s health ministry said on Monday that the country has so far registered 48 infections of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Anwar Hamdani, the COVID-19 coordinator and director of technical services of the Ministry of Health, was quoted by the local Daily Mirror as saying that the Omicron infected … Read more
PARIS, Dec 29, 2021 (AFP) – France said Wednesday that nightclubs would remain closed for a further three weeks, after nearly 180,000 new Covid cases smashed the record for daily cases since the pandemic began. The roughly 1,600 clubs were ordered shut on December 6 for four weeks as officials hoped to avoid a wave of … Read more
