Japan set to place Okinawa under COVID-19 state of emergency

Yasutoshi Nishimura, the minister in charge of the coronavirus response, speaks at a government subcommittee meeting in Tokyo's Nagatacho area on May 21, 2021. The Japanese government is set to decide later in the day to add Okinawa to areas under a COVID-19 state of emergency as infections in the southern island prefecture surge.

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