THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 28, 2021 at 18:55 JST
Under the third state of emergency, commuters come and go in front of JR Osaka Station in Osaka on April 26. (Kanako Tanaka)
OSAKA--Osaka Prefecture on April 28 confirmed a record 1,260 new COVID-19 cases, topping the previous daily record of 1,242 reported on April 21.
The prefecture also logged 14 deaths from the disease on the day.
The latest figures raised the prefecture’s cumulative number of COVID-19 cases to 79,039 and its death toll to 1,404.
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