THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 30, 2021 at 18:40 JST
A teacher at Honden Elementary School in Osaka’s Nishi Ward addresses his pupils online on the morning of April 26. (Toyokazu Kosugi)
OSAKA--The Osaka prefectural government confirmed 1,043 new coronavirus infections on April 30, the fourth straight day its daily count exceeded 1,000 cases.
The latest daily tally brought Osaka Prefecture’s cumulative number of COVID-19 cases to 81,254. The death toll from the virus in the prefecture rose by eight on April 30 to 1,456 people in total.
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