By YUICHIRO YONEDA/ Staff Writer
August 12, 2022 at 16:34 JST
Ambulances queue outside Heisei Tateishi Hospital in Tokyo’s Katsushika Ward on the evening of Aug. 5. As many as seven ambulances have lined up there waiting for the hospital to accept the patients. (Yuichiro Yoneda)
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