THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 21, 2021 at 18:44 JST
A sign in front of the Kintestu department store in Osaka on April 5 notifies customers of changes in its operating hours after COVID-19 pre-emergency measures are applied for the city. (Yuki Shibata)
OSAKA--The Osaka prefectural government on April 21 reported 20 more deaths from COVID-19 and confirmed 1,242 new coronavirus infections, exceeding the previous high of 1,219 on April 18.
It was the second highest daily number of fatalities in the prefecture, following the 23 deaths reported on Jan. 27.
The death toll from the virus in the prefecture has now reached 1,301. The April 21 tally brought the prefecture’s accumulative number of COVID-19 cases to 71,149.
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