BANGKOK – From India and South Africa, two strains of contagious Covid variants are causing alarm, and frantic countermeasures, from Australia to Southeast Asia, with Malaysia and Thailand at the center of a third wave that is struggling to control.
Melbourne, after three months of cases at an all-time low and the return to almost normal life, falls back into a lockdown that will last until 7 June and will affect its 5 million inhabitants, plus two more if you include the entire State of Victoria the most populous in the country, where travel will be restricted to essential needs, such as going to inoculate vaccines (which are distributed, according to critics, too slowly).
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