By Reuters Staff
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga suggested on Wednesday that he planned to let state of emergency curbs imposed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus expire on schedule on Sunday.
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“The figures have moved in the direction of lifting (the emergency measures),” he told reporters.
“I will make a final decision towards ending the curbs after listening to the views of experts,” he added.
The government declared a state of emergency around New Year’s as Japan’s third and deadliest wave of COVID-19 cases took its toll.
Most prefectures affected by the declaration lifted the measures at the end of February, but Tokyo and three neighbouring prefectures have remained under watch as the decline in new infections slowed.