THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
September 17, 2021 at 16:55 JST
Takaji Wakita, right, chairman of the health ministry's advisory board on measures against the novel coronavirus, attends a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 16. (Kai Ichino)
Despite the number of new COVID-19 cases trending downward nationally, hospital bed occupancy rates in nine prefectures still top 50 percent, making it unsafe to lift the state of emergency there, health experts said on Sept. 16. [Read More]
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