THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 2, 2021 at 18:54 JST
Osaka’s Dotonbori district is bustling with pedestrians on April 1. (Kenta Sujino)
OSAKA--The Osaka prefectural government confirmed 613 novel coronavirus infections on April 2, the second straight day the daily figure has topped 600.
The latest tally brought the prefecture’s accumulative number of COVID-19 cases to 53,496. The death toll from the virus in the prefecture rose by five on April 2 to reach 1,189.
Osaka city on April 5 is expected to come under the central government’s pre-emergency measures to stem the surge in new infections in the prefecture, which reported 616 new cases on April 1.
The prefectural government said on April 2 that 243 more patients are suspected of having contracted variants of the virus. It sent samples taken from them to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases for a detailed analysis.
So far, 627 patients in the prefecture have been suspected of contracting COVID-19 variants, and 207 have been confirmed infected by the strains.
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