【世卫组织专家：#印度疫情大暴发显示了新冠变种病毒的高传播性#】世界卫生组织首席科学家苏米娅·斯瓦米纳坦在接受法新社专访时表示，新冠B.1.617变种病毒传播性更强且可能会“突破”疫苗的保护；鉴于这些特性，变种病毒在印度传播迅速，造成了疫情大暴发。The B.1.617 variant of COVID-19, first detected in India last October, is a contributing factor to the country's COVID-19 surge, World Health Organization Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan has said. "The epidemiological features that we see in India today do indicate that it's an extremely rapidly spreading variant," Swaminathan said in an interview with AFP, adding that the variant is more contagious and may be dodging vaccine protections. (File picture)

#尼泊尔是否会变成下一个印度#
尼泊尔也沦陷了。
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Friday it is allowing non-essential diplomats and the families of all American staff at the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu to leave Nepal at government expense due a surge in coronavirus cases.
The department also advised private Americans to reconsider any plans they may have to visit the Himalayan country and asked those already there who wish to leave to submit information to the embassy. That step suggests the embassy may organize charter flights out of the country in the absence of regularly scheduled commercial flights.

【#日本政府决定延长紧急事态宣言至5月31日#】当地时间5月7日17时20分，日本政府召开新冠肺炎疫情对策本部会议，正式决定把向东京、京都、大阪、兵库四都府县发布的紧急事态宣言的期限延长至31日，并新追加爱知、福冈两县。Japan on Friday extended the COVID-19 state of emergency in Tokyo and three other areas until May 31 to curb a surge in novel coronavirus cases just months before the Tokyo Olympics. The Achi and Fukuoka prefectures are also part of this new state of emergency.