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Yokohama and other municipalities have come under pressure to expand their subsidy programs to allow children of all ages and income brackets to receive free medical treatment.
Many working parents are being forced to look after their young children at home amid a spike in temporary closures of nursery schools due to the alarming rise in COVID-19 cases across the country.
Public health centers are scrambling desperately to cope with the surging Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus by working to increase their capacity and employing makeshift staffing.