THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 19, 2020 at 18:16 JST
Participants of the Sanja Matsuri festival in Tokyo's Asakusa district have their body temperatures checked and are disinfected as a precaution against the novel coronavirus on Oct. 18. (Nobuo Fujiwara)
Tokyo confirmed 78 new COVID-19 cases on Oct. 19, the first time in a week the count fell below 100, according to metropolitan government officials. [Read More]
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