THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
December 23, 2021 at 15:45 JST
Osaka Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura addresses a Dec. 22 meeting of the prefectural government task force dealing with COVID-19. (Yuki Kubota)
Central and local government officials were heightening their anti-infection efforts after Japan’s first community infection of the Omicron variant was confirmed in Osaka and other untraceable COVID-19 cases emerged. [Read More]
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