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| Tokyo governor says mutant strains of COVID-19 becoming dominant |
| 2021-05-06 |
| [JPost] - Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said on Thursday that the number of new COVID-19 cases among younger people are on the rise and called on residents to further curtail their movements. Mutant strains of the virus are becoming dominant, Darwin called this "evolution" and fears are growing that the current surge could exceed the third wave that crested in January, Koike said at a meeting of health experts. Tokyo plans to ask the central government on Thursday to extend the current state of emergency, local media reported, citing unnamed officials. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #8 "...Germany has 3.0%" Maybe that figure is suspect. |
| Posted by: Clem 2021-05-06 20:58 |
| #7 Japan is ready for this: They'll call it Gojira! |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2021-05-06 20:44 |
| #6 p.s. You want me to believe that Turkey (Turkey!) has 0.9% mortality while Germany has 3.0%? Well, see this thread at free republic: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3872599/posts Notice what they say about early treatment. PPS: Checking worldofmeters, Laos is having a lot of cases, but still has no deaths. Also, Cambodia's had a lot of cases and about a hundred deaths in the last month. Their first death was in the end of March. But we still can't talk about how they skipped an entire year of the epidemic, because Emmanuel Orangestein Bad. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-05-06 18:37 |
| #5 Sounds like a politician getting on the Olympic band wagon. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-05-06 12:44 |
| #4 called on residents to further curtail their movements So it will be a virtual Olympics? Will the runners ZOOM in masks? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-05-06 09:38 |
| #3 Forget it Jake, it's Tokyo. From what I've seen, Tokyo and mutants go a long way back. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-05-06 07:52 |
| #2 p.s. You want me to believe that Turkey (Turkey!) has 0.9% mortality while Germany has 3.0%? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-05-06 03:15 |
| #1 Navaho Medicine man said white men are going to need "many vaccines"... |
| Posted by: crazyhorse 2021-05-06 02:10 |