Japan extends virus emergency for Tokyo and other regions

Japan extends virus emergency for Tokyo and other regions

A sign asking people to take anti-coronavirus measures is pictured on Feb. 2, 2021, at a shopping arcade in Gifu, which is almost empty as Japan extends the coronavirus state of emergency for Tokyo, Osaka and other regions, including the central Japan city, by one month to March 7 in view of a surge in serious patients at manpower-strapped hospitals.

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