Daily News: COVID-19 tracing app, 60th anniversary of US-Japan Security Treaty, Super- spreader

Japan’s government released COVID-19 tracing app “COCOA” last Friday and so far 3.2 million times has been downloaded, which is only 2.5% of its population, according to the iPhone Mania. This app uses API datas from Apple and Google. Although the first month is a trial period for the development, users has been posting errors on this app like user can change the first date of usage and they can skip the agreement of privacy policy. https://iphone-mania.jp/news-297225/ Today is 60th years anniversary of the U.S-Japan Security Treaty which is an agreement contained five articles made by Nobusuke Kishi, the then PM who is grandfather of the current premier Shinzo Abe. Yesterday, the cabinet’s spokesperson Suga said that U.S plays a role of peace and stability to, not only Indo-Pacific, international community, NHK reported. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20200623/k10012480171000.html Melbourne might face a second wave of the coronavirus due to the several outbreaks across the city. According to the Age, “Super-spreaders” who have unintentionally passed the virus to their family and other relatives at large family gatherings where social distance measures haven’t been observed. T​ he clusters account for at least 25 cases with family members in the Hume, Brimbank, Moreland and Cardinia municipalities. https://www-theage-com-au.ez.library.latrobe.edu.au/national/victoria/coronavirus-hotspots-and- the-family-clusters-driving-its-spread-20200622-p55504.html Yesterday, Victoria confirmed 16 new cases of COVID-19; six cases are linked to known outbreaks, four detected in hotel quarantine, five identified through routine testing, and one remains under investigation, according to the official’s report. https://www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/coronavirus-covid-19-daily-update I included the source of news to the detail of this episode. For the latest updates can be found on Twitter @Petemymate