Western Australia lifted the ban on Thursday four months after Sydney began staging quarantine-free travel again and more than a week later all vaccinated tourists became eligible for visas.
Western Australia lifted the ban on Thursday four months after Sydney began staging quarantine-free travel again and more than a week later all vaccinated tourists became eligible for visas.
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Japan
Japan prepares to increase limit of coronavirus, relax border rules
Japan is set to loosen border controls to allow more people to enter the country, expanding infection control measures to limit the spread of the coronavirus to several regions, including Tokyo.
Media reports said Prime Minister Fumio Kishida would increase the number of people entering Japan from 5,000 currently to 7,000, while students would be exempt from the daily intake and considered in a separate category.
The move will ease the country’s strict border measures earlier this week, which opened doors to more students and foreign workers amid criticism from business leaders and teachers.
Mr Kishida is set to announce an extended coronavirus semi-emergency as well as new measures at a news conference at 3:30 pm IST. , Reuters
Australia
Australia fully open to travel as last state reopens borders
Australia was fully open to vaccinated travelers after Western Australia became the last state to lift border restrictions on Thursday.
Western Australia, which covers a third of the country’s land area, closed its borders to most international and interstate travelers in 2020 to slow the spread of COVID-19.
But the state lifted the ban on Thursday after four months when Sydney began staging quarantine-free travel again and more than a week later became eligible for all vaccinated tourist visas. , AP
National
Next wave can’t be predicted: Experts
Independent experts have criticized a recent modeling study by a group of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur that predicts a fourth COVID wave in India around June.
The study, uploaded to the preprint server medrixiv, which hosts scientific work that has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal, predicts that the wave will begin on June 22, reaching its peak on August 23. and will end on October 24.
National
Lancet study on orphanage in India due to COVID-19 ‘sophisticated trickery’, says govt
The government on Wednesday said an article in the Lancet said that 1.9 million children experienced orphans due to COVID-19 in India during the first 20 months of the pandemic were “sophisticated tactic to create panic among citizens”. ” Is.
“Ministry of Women and Child Development found the Lancet article dated February 24, 2022, the estimates of children affected by orphanage related to COVID-19 very surprising. These findings have no relation to the ground reality in India as reflected from the field findings Happens,” it said. In a press statement.