By HIROSHI ISHIZUKA/ Staff Writer
September 5, 2020 at 17:04 JST
Doctors and nurses treat a COVID-19 patient with severe symptoms at a Saitama hospital. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Improved treatment was among factors that played a key role in reducing the fatality rate of COVID-19 during the second wave to just one-sixth of the levels recorded in the first wave this spring. [Read More]
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