地球，人間煉獄 CCXII (212期)：紐西蘭迅速蔓延的Covid疫情。 丹麥放棄 COVID 限制。港人恐慌：日確診破五萬宗。擔心封城 香港出現搶購潮和離港潮；(空話 不知所云)北京要求香港必須在7月習近平赴港前控制住疫情

 地球，人間煉獄 CCXII (212期)：

New Zealand’s fast-spreading Covid outbreak

New Zealand is being walloped by a major outbreak of the Omicron variant, with the virus spreading at what may be the fastest rate in the world.

The country reported 23,194 new cases on Thursday, a once unthinkable number in a small island nation that held off major outbreaks for years. The record daily case count until recently was in the low hundreds.

The explosion in cases has come as the government, under political pressure, loosened its strict pandemic regulations and as the highly transmissible Omicron reduced the effectiveness of the controls that remained.

Quotable: “This is the first time most New Zealanders are dealing with Covid-19 in their own homes,” said Siouxsie Wiles, a microbiologist at the University of Auckland.

Related: The last of Australia’s strict pandemic-era border restrictions have been lifted.

紐西蘭迅速蔓延的Covid疫情

紐西蘭正遭受 Omicron 變種的大規模爆發，該病毒的傳播速度可能是世界上最快的。

該國周四報告了 23,194 例新病例，這在一個多年來一直阻止重大疫情爆發的小島國中曾經是不可想像的數字。 直到最近，創紀錄的每日病例數只有幾百個。

病例激增之際，政府在政治壓力下放鬆了嚴格的流行病法規，並且高度傳播的 Omicron 降低了剩餘控制措施的有效性。

可引用的：“這是大多數新西蘭人第一次在家中處理 Covid-19，”奧克蘭大學的微生物學家 Siouxsie Wiles 說。

相關：澳大利亞大流行時期最後一項嚴格的邊境限制已被取消。

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Denmark justified a surprise move to drop COVID restrictions at the peak of its latest wave by pointing to its high vaccination rate -- and early signs suggest it may have been the right decision.

google 丹麥通過指出其高疫苗接種率證明了在最新一波高峰期放棄 COVID 限制的意外舉措是合理的——早期跡象表明這可能是正確的決定。

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Just 15% of elderly residents in Hong Kong’s care homes are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, despite evidence from early in the pandemic that such facilities are hotbeds for disease and death. https://trib.al/3N9bczC

本地確診數字連日來破萬，消息指今日更錄得破五萬宗。隨港府採取嚴厲的隔離措施，美國駐香港及澳門總領事館在社交媒體上公佈指，美國國務院已調升來港旅遊警示為最高第四級別，即「請勿前往」（Do Not Travel），籲美國公民因應疫情及當地法律，應重新考慮前往香港。

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社群網站上流傳的照片顯示，各種物資包括肉類、蔬菜、冷凍食品、麵條、止疼片和檢測試劑盒已經幾乎售完

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擔心封城 香港出現搶購潮和離港潮
由于香港政府仍未明确表示是否将在本月执行严格的封城令，超市和商店出现

The Hong Kong government’s failure to provide a coherent account and timely assurances on a potential citywide lockdown for compulsory Covid-19 testing contributed to a wave of panic buying among residents, political and communications experts said on Tuesday.

Read the full report: https://sc.mp/mqr7

香港疫情最新發展，原各友人平安

北京要求香港必須在7月習近平赴港前控制住疫情

據知情人士透露，國務院副總理韓正最近在深圳接見香港特首林鄭月娥，召開了一次閉門會議，會上傳達了來自習近平的直接命令。

據知情人士透露，國務院副總理韓正最近在深圳接見香港特首林鄭月娥，召開了一次閉門會議，會上傳達了來自習近平的直接命令：香港必須在未來幾週內控制住疫情，趕在習近平計劃中的7月1日訪港之前。