taken several steps to slow down the sixth wave of infection. so far, they have extended travel restrictions, essentially banning all non-residents until the end of february. they have suspended a program that would allow people who were fully vaccinated or have a negative test result to be exempt from covid-19 restrictions. and today, just about 30 minutes ago, the government did declare a quasi-state of emergency order for 13 prefectures, including tokyo, which expands the total to 16. here s a map of the affected areas. this authorization from the national government allows local governors to request that bars and restaurants limit their operating hours, and can ask bars and restaurants to stop serving alcohol. businesses could be fined for non-compliance. now, for the first time ever, japan s covid case count topped 30,000 yesterday. that s an increase of more than 415% compared to the same day last week. the previous record, 25,000 cases recorded last august, just about two weeks
As Japan grapples to deal with a nationwide surge in Covid-19 cases, senior government officials said on Monday that 30 of the country s 47 prefectures will be placed under a quasi-state of emergency in the coming days.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will place three prefectures under a quasi-state of emergency on Friday amid a spike in Covid-19 cases stemming from American military personnel based in the prefectures spreading the virus.
a common front, if it were not quite a communist international being like the old days, but some type of communist approach taken by the russians, chinese, russians? there already is and china is very much a part of it. but it s not at all like the old chinese internationals. there s no link between china and iran and venezuela and belarus. these are different countries and completely different ruling philosophies, at least in theory. in practice, they all now operate in many similar ways. so the state companies, quasi-state, quasi-private companies and one company that now invests in quasi-state and quasi-private companies. in others the police help and they learn from one another how to do propaganda, how to do disinformation and what kind of tactics work the best. china sells an enormous amount of surveillance equipment all around the world, cuba, venezuela, many, many