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Japan Rolls Out Vaccine Slowly, Despite Looming Olympics
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Looming Olympics fail to instill urgency in Japan s vaccine rollout
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Daily coronavirus infections hit record highs in 14 Japan prefectures over past month The Mainichi © The Mainichi (Mainichi)
TOKYO Coronavirus infections hit single-day highs in 14 of Japan s 47 prefectures over the past month, though many of the prefectures are not subject to quasi-emergency measures that have been implemented to curb the spread of the virus.
As of April 19, quasi-emergency virus measures had not been implemented in 10 of the 14 prefectures where daily infection numbers hit record highs. These prefectures lie mainly in the Tohoku region in northeast Japan and the Shikoku region in west Japan, and although infection numbers in those areas are not as high as in Osaka Prefecture and the Tokyo metropolitan area, where coronavirus variants have spread, experts fear the increase could cause local medical systems to collapse.
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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.
FILE PHOTO: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Tokyo (Corrects translation of quote in final paragraph to reflect that the government official was acknowledging criticism rather than accepting it as valid.)
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese health authorities are concerned that variants of the coronavirus are driving a nascent fourth wave in the pandemic with just 109 days remaining until the Tokyo Olympics.
The variants appear to be more infectious and may be resistant to vaccines, which are still not widely available in Japan. The situation is worst in Osaka, where infections hit fresh records last week, prompting the regional government to start targeted lockdown measures for one month from Monday.
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