Japan Faces the Fourth Wave, Deaths from COVID-19 Soar

Eighteen people have died of the respiratory illness COVID-19 outside a hospital in Japan's Osaka Prefecture, officials said, amid calls for tighter restrictions on movement to stop the fourth wave of infections ahead of the Olympics.

Osaka Prefecture recorded a spike in new COVID-19 cases on Monday evening for the first time. Most of the patients who died were 60 years or older, but one death occurred in their 30s.

Japan on Friday extended a state of emergency for most countries to try to contain the fourth wave of the pandemic, with the start of the Tokyo Olympics in about two months.

The declaration covers the prefectures of Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo, covers nearly a quarter of Japan's population, and will run until May 31.

Several prefectural governors called for stronger emergency measures to be enacted nationwide at an online meeting on Monday, the Kyodo news agency reported.

The western region of Osaka has been hard hit, becoming the epicenter of infection of a variant first identified in Britain that is more contagious and causes more serious conditions.

More than 96 percent of Osaka Prefecture's critical care hospital beds are now occupied.

At one nursing home in Osaka, 61 residents were infected and 14 died while waiting to be hospitalized, public broadcaster NHK reported on Friday.

Osaka Prefecture had 668 new cases as of Monday while Tokyo had 573. (Between / Ant)

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# China Bans Mukbang and Waste of Food, Offenders Can Be Fined
China recently enacted new regulations that prohibit food waste. The regulations stem from the anti-food waste campaign that was started in 2020 by China's President, Xi Jinping, who feels that food waste is a problem that threatens the country's food security.

These laws prohibit diners from ordering more than they need at restaurants, and also prohibit filming or sharing of eating videos, more commonly known as mukbang videos.

The mukbang videos are now suspended on Chinese social media sites. TV and media companies can also be fined up to US $ 16,000, or the equivalent of Rp.227 million, if they are caught producing or broadcasting mukbang videos, as reported by World of Buzz, Tuesday, May 11, 2021.

# 70 Percent of COVID-19 Sufferers in Australia Still Feel Symptoms 6 Months Later
A recent study in Australia said 70 percent of people who contracted COVID-19 and were then hospitalized were still experiencing health problems until now.
The study was conducted with data from 30 hospitals across Australia and is a collaboration of researchers, physiotherapists, doctors and nurses who work on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) chart.

Under the title Recovery Study from COVID, the experts interviewed about 200 COVID-19 patients to find out what their condition was six to 12 months after being positive.
Carol Hodgson Professor from Monash University who is also an ICU physiotherapist at Alfred Hospital in Melbourne said her team had just completed data collection.

Although he has not yet analyzed the overall data, he said only 30 percent of respondents felt they were "lively and uninterrupted" six months after being exposed to the virus.

Meanwhile, 70 percent of other patients mostly report the presence of various mild symptoms such as shortness of heat and feeling weak, and a small number of others still experience prolonged coughing, headaches, or loss of smell or sense of taste.
Professor Hodgson said, patients who have experienced critical illness before with various infections are likely to still report a variety of symptoms.

Research was conducted to find out whether there are still 'unique and long-term symptoms' of the COVID-19 disease that are different from other diseases in general.

"The question is not whether COVID has an impact, the question is whether COVID is different from what we see with other critical illnesses," he said.
"The very specific symptoms of COVID-19"
So far most of the studies that have been published on the long-term impact of COVID-19 have been from international research teams.

This is because other countries have higher cases of COVID because the virus has been circulating in Europe and Asia longer than in Australia, where the first cases appeared in January 2020.

Research in Sweden says 15 percent of those who experience mild symptoms of COVID-19 still experience symptoms for at least eight months after infection.

And separate research in the United States says those who test positive for COVID-19 are likely to need help in the future for complaints such as breathing problems, mental health issues, fatigue and problems. 

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Burnet Institute lead researcher Joseph Doyle said there were "some very specific symptoms" such as fatigue and weakness, which persist after a person catches COVID-19.
But according to Dr Doyle, other serious respiratory infections caused by viruses also cause similar symptoms.

For example, patients who are critically ill with influenza also experience problems such as fatigue and reduced physical function for up to five years after experiencing them.

Dr Doyle stressed that COVID-19 is 'very serious' than flu, both from the initial infection and also from the long-term effects.

"[COVID-19] clearly has a much higher chance of claiming our lives than the flu, and is more likely to get us hospitalized or intensive care," he said.

But not everyone will experience this lingering problem.

"Most people recover and most people recover completely," said Dr. Doyle.

"If you are lucky that you only have mild symptoms of COVID infection, then you will not have any problems at all, you will likely be completely cured."