THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
May 3, 2021 at 18:40 JST
Travelers are scarce at JR Shin-Osaka Station in Osaka on May 1 due to a third state of emergency over the novel coronavirus. (Nobuhiro Shirai)
Osaka Prefecture confirmed 847 new cases of novel coronavirus infection and 19 deaths from COVID-19 on May 3, public health officials said.
The latest daily counts raised the accumulative tally of coronavirus cases and deaths in the prefecture to 84,417 and 1,532, respectively.
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