THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 28, 2022 at 17:03 JST
Takaji Wakita, head of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases who heads the expert panel, speaks to reporters after a meeting in the health ministry office in Tokyo’s Kasumigaseki district in Chiyoda Ward on July 27. (Kai Ichino)
The occupancy rate of hospital beds was exceeding 50 percent in 18 of 47 prefectures as of July 26 amid the seventh wave of COVID-19 cases in Japan. [Read More]
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