Thousands of people have taken to the streets in the Thai capital Bangkok, as the city is gripped by yet another large-scale anti-government protest.
The French government is to restore a state of public health emergency that expired three months ago and impose a nightly curfew in some cities, including Paris.
Officials of Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, are planning to conduct an experiment at a baseball stadium to see how their coronavirus measures will work when the number of spectators exceeds the limit currently set by the central government.