THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
May 2, 2021 at 18:30 JST
Travelers are scarce at the ticket counter of Japan Airlines Co. at Osaka Airport on April 29, the first day of the Golden Week holidays. (Nobuhiro Shirai)
Osaka Prefecture reported 1,057 fresh cases of COVID-19 and 16 related deaths on May 2.
Prefectural officials said the counts brought the accumulative total of cases and deaths to 83,570 and 1,513, respectively.
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