It's not odd if you ask me. They should done this way earlier. Many EU countries will do this in the coming weeks. We're just following it. The number of infected people is not important. Percentage of hospitalized and death is. The number of infected people is just there to scare people.
I don't know how I didn't see this earlier but:
https://twitter.com/suec00k/st...
The media (especially here) spread incredible panic and lies about corona at the beggining. Our main portal today commented on research from South Africa (regarding the new strain) and immediately began to spread panic about how vaccines might be useless because of the new strain. The vast majority of the media should be punished.