THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 16, 2021 at 17:06 JST
Norihisa Tamura, health minister, center, and Yasutoshi Nishimura, minister in charge of COVID-19 measures, left, talk after a meeting at the prime minister’s office on Aug. 4. (Koichi Ueda)
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