THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
May 10, 2021 at 18:03 JST
Commuters near JR Osaka Station in Osaka on April 26, the first Monday after Osaka Prefecture was placed under the third state of emergency over the novel coronavirus (Yoshikai Arai)
OSAKA--The Osaka prefectural government confirmed 668 new cases of COVID-19 and 15 deaths from the virus on May 10, health officials said.
The new figures bring the prefecture's accumulated total infections to 90,279 and its death toll to 1,730.
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