THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 23, 2021 at 18:19 JST
The Tokyo metropolitan government’s expert panel monitoring the spread of the novel coronavirus in the capital meets on April 22. (Momoko Ikegami)
Novel coronavirus variants accounted for nearly 90 percent of new infection cases over the most recent week in Tokyo, health experts said, fueling fears the mutated strains could cause unprecedented damage in the capital. [Read More]
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