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Asia Today: Hong Kong lengthens 検疫s for 16 countries

Published: 06:23 BST, 17 August 2021 | Updated: 01:29 BST, 18 August 2021

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HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong will 強化する入ること／参加（者）制限s for 旅行者s arriving from the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs and 15 other countries beginning Friday, 延長するing the 検疫 period to 21 days.

以前, the 15 countries, which also 含む Malaysia, Thailand, フラン and the Netherlands, were 分類するd as medium-危険, with 旅行者s able to stay only seven days of 検疫 if they were fully vaccinated and 実験（する）d 肯定的な for antibodies 事前の to leaving for the city.

A resurgence of coronavirus 事例／患者s in these countries 予定 to the delta variant led the to be recategorized as high high-危険 and 厳格な人対策課すd, as the 政府 sought to "支持する the 地元の障壁 against the 輸入 of COVID-19," it said in a 声明.

The changes come after a 国内の労働者 who had returned to Hong Kong from the U.S. earlier this month 実験（する）d 肯定的な for the coronavirus, にもかかわらず receiving two 発射s of ワクチン and 実験（する）ing 肯定的な for antibodies.

The 義務的な検疫 period was 延長するd from seven to 14 days for fully vaccinated 旅行者s with a 肯定的な antibody 実験（する） arriving from Australia, now categorized as medium-危険. 検疫必要物／必要条件s for New Zealand, which is the only country considered low-危険, remain at seven days for fully-vaccinated 乗客s.

Hong Kong´s "無-COVID" 戦略 has seen 当局課す strict 国境制限s and 禁止（する） flights from 極端に high-危険 countries, in the hopes that no 地元の community spread would 許す it to re-open 国境s with 本土／大陸中国.

People wearing 直面する masks to 妨げる the spread of coronavirus walk on a downtown street in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. Hong Kong will 強化する入ること／参加（者）制限s for 旅行者s arriving from the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs and 14 other countries from Friday, 増加するing the 検疫 period to 21 days. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

The city had nearly two months of no 事例／患者s within the 地元の community, but its streak was broken earlier this month when a 43-year-old construction 労働者 with no travel history was 設立する to have antibodies in his 血にもかかわらず not 存在 vaccinated -- 示すing that he was probably 感染させるd some time ago.

Hong Kong has 記録，記録的な／記録するd a total of 12,037 coronavirus 感染s since the pandemic began, with 212 deaths.

In other 開発s in the Asia-太平洋の地域:

- Also Tuesday, Australia´s most populous 明言する／公表する報告（する）／憶測d its third-highest number of daily 感染s of the pandemic, but the 政府 leader said the spread of the delta variant in Sydney, the country's largest city, had not yet 頂点（に達する）d. There were 452 new 感染s 記録，記録的な／記録するd in New South むちの跡s, 負かす／撃墜する from 475 on Monday and 466 on Saturday. An unvaccinated woman 老年の in her 70s had died in a Sydney hospital on Monday, bringing the death （死傷者）数 from the 突発／発生 discovered in 中央の-June to 53. New South むちの跡s 首相 Gladys Berejiklian said she 推定する／予想するd daily 感染s counts to remain high. "We are assuming that 事例／患者 numbers will go up. Now, I say that only as a realist because when you have cumulative days of high 事例／患者 numbers, there is a tipping point where 事例／患者 numbers go up," Berejiklian said. "But our challenge is to make sure that we keep ワクチン接種率s up," she 追加するd. About half of New South むちの跡s´s 全住民 has had at least one 注射 of the two-発射 Pfizer or AstraZeneca ワクチン. The 政府 wants 80% of the 全住民 fully vaccinated before it 緩和するs Sydney´s lockdown, which began on June 26.

- New Zealand is going into a strict lockdown for at least three days after 発表するing Tuesday it had 設立する its first 事例／患者 of community 伝達／伝染 since February. 総理大臣 Jacinda Ardern invoked some of the stirring rhetoric she used 早期に in the pandemic by 勧めるing the 十分な全住民 to go hard and 早期に in trying to 除去する the 最新の突発／発生. She said Auckland, where the 感染させるd man lives, and Coromandel, where he had visited, would go into a 十分な lockdown for seven days and the 残りの人，物 of the country for three days while health 専門家s tried to find the source of his 感染. Ardern had been 警告 that the contagiousness of the delta variant would likely 要求する more 激烈な活動／戦闘 than previous 突発／発生s. It´s not known if the man is 感染させるd with the delta variant but they are assuming he does.

- Japanese 総理大臣 Yoshihide Suga 公式に拡大するd and 延長するd the nation´s coronavirus 明言する／公表する of 緊急 on Tuesday, as 政府助言者s recommended 合法的な changes that would 許す刑罰，罰則s for 違反s. The 対策, 認可するd by a 政府仕事軍隊, 追加する seven 県s to the six areas already under a 明言する／公表する of 緊急 and 延長する it to Sept. 12. Ten other 県s were put under a "quasi-緊急," which had 以前 encompassed six 県s, bringing about two-thirds of the nation under some form of 緊急. The 政府 has taken pride in 避けるing compulsory 対策 or a lockdown, but some 専門家s and critics are wondering if voluntary 対策 are enough. Shigeru Omi, the nation´s 最高の，を越す医療の助言者, said the 仕事軍隊 is considering 合法的な changes which are needed to 学校／設ける刑罰，罰則s or 宣言する a lockdown.

Supermarket staff help a 顧客 with her shopping in Auckland, New Zealand, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. New Zealand's 政府 took 激烈な活動／戦闘 Tuesday by putting the entire nation into a strict lockdown after （悪事，秘密などを）発見するing just a 選び出す／独身 community 事例／患者 of the coronavirus. (Hayden Woodward/New Zealand 先触れ（する）経由で AP)

Shoppers 顔触れ to enter a supermarket in Auckland, New Zealand, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. New Zealand's 政府 took 激烈な活動／戦闘 Tuesday by putting the entire nation into a strict lockdown after （悪事，秘密などを）発見するing just a 選び出す／独身 community 事例／患者 of the coronavirus. (Jason Oxenham/New Zealand 先触れ（する）経由で AP)

In this image made from ビデオ, New Zealand 総理大臣 Jacinda Ardern speaks during a news 会議／協議会 in Wellington, New Zealand, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. New Zealand's 政府 took 激烈な活動／戦闘 Tuesday by putting the ent 怒らせる nation into a strict lockdown for at least three days after finding a 選び出す／独身事例／患者 of coronavirus 感染 in the community. (TVNZ 経由で AP)

In this image made from ビデオ, New Zealand 総理大臣 Jacinda Ardern speaks during a news 会議／協議会 in Wellington, New Zealand, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. New Zealand's 政府 took 激烈な活動／戦闘 Tuesday by putting the entire nation into a strict lockdown for at least three days after finding a 選び出す／独身事例／患者 of coronavirus 感染 in the community. (TVNZ 経由で AP)

Shoppers 顔触れ to enter a supermarket in Auckland, New Zealand, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. New Zealand's 政府 took 激烈な活動／戦闘 Tuesday by putting the entire nation into a strict lockdown after （悪事，秘密などを）発見するing just a 選び出す／独身 community 事例／患者 of the coronavirus. (Brett Phibbs/New Zealand 先触れ（する）経由で AP)

Japanese 総理大臣 Yoshihide Suga listens to a question from a 新聞記者／雑誌記者 during a news 会議／協議会 at 首相's 公式の／役人住居 in Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday Aug. 17, 2021. Yoshihide Suga has 公式に拡大するd and 延長するd the nation's coronavirus 明言する／公表する of 緊急 as 政府助言者s recommend 合法的な changes that would 許す刑罰，罰則s for 違反s. (Kimimasa Mayama/ Pool 経由で AP)

Japanese 総理大臣 Yoshihide Suga speaks during a news 会議／協議会 at 首相's 公式の／役人住居 in Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday Aug. 17, 2021. Japanese 総理大臣 Yoshihide Suga has 公式に拡大するd and 延長するd the nation's coronavirus 明言する／公表する of 緊急 as 政府助言者s recommend 合法的な changes that would 許す刑罰，罰則s for 違反s. (Kimimasa Mayama/ Pool 経由で AP)