Three more Japanese prefectures are considering asking the government to place them under a quasi-state of emergency, local officials say, as the nation scrambles to rein in surging infections driven by the highly transmissible Omicron strain.
Japan s confirmed daily coronavirus cases top 20,000 for the third consecutive day, as the country continues to battle with the rapid spread of the Omicron variant.
Japan will shorten to 10 days the current 14-day isolation period for close contacts of the Omicron COVID-19 variant among the general public, health minister Shigeyuki Goto says
The Japanese government is considering shortening the current 14-day isolation period for those who have been identified as a close contact of a positive COVID-19 case, officials say.
The Tokyo metropolitan government projects that the seven-day rolling average of new COVID-19 cases will surge to 9,576 daily in a week if cases increase at the current pace, as an apparent sixth wave of the coronavirus pandemic hits the capital.