Japan decides to put Tokyo, 12 more areas under COVID quasi-emergency

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Japan decides to put Tokyo, 12 more areas under COVID quasi-emergency

Japan's economic revitalization minister Daishiro Yamagiwa speaks at a meeting of the government advisory panel on anti-coronavirus measures in Tokyo on Jan. 19, 2022. Japan decided Wednesday to place Tokyo and 12 other areas under a coronavirus quasi-state of emergency, with the capital reporting a record 7,377 new infections as the highly transmissible Omicron variant spreads rapidly across the country.

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