Many Asian countries are facing a spike in COVID-19 infections after the widely-celebrated Lunar New Year holidays. Health officials are grappling with the highly-transmissible omicron variant and expectations that numbers will continue to rise.
Daily infections have since dipped to 7,752 on Sunday, amid restrictions that include limited capacity for restaurants and capping the number of unique visitors to each household.
In Japan, nearly 90,000 new cases nationwide were reported on Sunday, including 17,526 in Tokyo, as local omicronExperts say the infections are now spreading to vulnerable elderly people who are beginning to fill more hospital beds. Less than 5% of the country’s population has received their third dose of the coronavirus vaccine.
In Thailand, officials on Monday reported more than 10,000 daily cases for the third day in a row, but the Department of Disease Control said that the number of severely ill patients was dropping, while the fatality rate has remained stable. In other countries where the Lunar New Year is a major holiday, governments are likewise on high alert ahead of expectations that omicron will continue to stoke higher infections.
In South Korea, health experts warn that the country may see daily jumps of 130,000 or 170,000 by late February.
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