Virus cases stay high in Okinawa

Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki (R) holds talks with Gaku Hashimoto, state minister of health, labor and welfare, on the worsening coronavirus situation in the southern Japan prefecture on Aug. 16, 2020, at the prefectural government headquarters in Naha.

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