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The number of daily cases of COVID-19 in Japan has exceeded 30 thousand for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, reports Anadolu Agency (AA).
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has announced that in the last 24 hours across the country 32,197 cases of COVID-19 have been detected.
This broke the record of 25,992 cases on August 20, 2021, when the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games were held. After about 500 cases detected on the first day of 2022, the daily cases increased more than 60 times.
In the capital Tokyo in the last day 5,185 cases were registered while 5,396 cases in the southern city of Osaka.
The number of cases in the capital has exceeded 5,000 for the first time in the last 5 months while the highest cases were recorded in Osaka.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said that “some provinces will urgently consider requests for a partial state of emergency” as cases reached a record high.
The head of the government’s Advisory Board for COVID-19, Shigeru Omi, said that “precautionary measures should be taken according to the characteristics” of the Omicron variant.
According to the Kyodo agency, the government plans to extend the partial state of emergency from January 21 in 16 provinces, which has only been implemented in 3 provinces so far.
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