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Experts urging social distance as coronavirus clusters multiply, diversify in Japan The Mainichi © The Mainichi Commuters cross a street near JR Osaka Station in the city of Osaka on April 5, 2021, the first day of a coronavirus quasi-emergency covering the municipality and five other cities in Japan. (Mainichi/Kenji Ikai)
TOKYO Coronavirus quasi-emergencies have gone into effect in six Japanese cities in three prefectures Osaka, Hyogo and Miyagi with sudden infection surges. The new municipal-level measures include shortened business hour requests for restaurants and bars, but also demand that people refrain from frequenting karaoke spots, which the previous states of emergency had not. Behind these developments lies a shift in the structure of the pandemic: cluster infections are diversifying.
Experts urging social distance as coronavirus clusters multiply, diversify in Japan
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Japan s early HIV diagnosis numbers fall in 2020 amid focus on coronavirus
March 17, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
The Central Government Building No. 5 that houses the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry is seen in this file photo taken in Tokyo s Chiyoda Ward on Oct. 14, 2015. (Mainichi/Kimi Takeuchi) TOKYO In 2020, 1,076 more people in Japan were found to have HIV, down from 1,236 in 2019, according to preliminary figures released by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare s AIDS trend committee on March 16. Within this number, 740 people had their infections confirmed before developing symptoms. The results indicate a significant drop on the preceding year, at around 20% fewer than the 903 people in 2019. It appears the results have been affected by a swift fall in the number of tests carried out at public health centers and other institutions in response to the spread of the coronavirus.