China fights Covid surge as Japan extends emergency during Olympics

Beijing (AFP) July 30, 2021

Hundreds of thousands of people in China were in lockdown on Friday as the country battled its worst Covid-19 outbreak in months, while Japan - a week into the Olympics - extended its state of emergency due to surging infections. The average number of new daily cases globally jumped by 10 percent over the last week, according to an AFP tally, largely due to the highly contagious Delta vari