Covid World Dispatch: Australia's capital to enter one-week lockdown

Canberra will enter a snap seven-day lockdown on Thursday, China partly shut the world's third-busiest container port after a worker became infected with Covid

Virus spread in Tokyo can’t be controlled, expert says

A member of a Tokyo Metropolitan Government coronavirus advisory panel of experts said it was now impossible to control the spread of Covid-19 in the capital.

The comments on behalf of the panel by Norio Omagari at a Thursday meeting with Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike came as the city and national governments consider whether to extend a state of emergency in Tokyo, which is experiencing its worst-ever wave of virus cases. Read more

China partly shuts world’s third-busiest port

China partly shut the world’s third-busiest container port after a