Australian states tightened borders and restricted pub visits today, while Disney prepared to close its Hong Kong theme park and Japan stepped up tracing as a jump in novel coronavirus cases across Asia fanned fears of a second wave of infections.
The World Health Organization has said the global Covid-19 death toll has topped 566,000, while the total number of infections has reached 12.76 million.
Many parts of Asia, the region first hit by the coronavirus that emerged in central China late last year, are finding cause to pause the reopening of their economies, some after winning praise for their initial responses to the outbreak.