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Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga meets with representatives of various medical associations on Aug. 3. (Koichi Ueda)
Ruling coalition lawmakers have joined calls for the government to scrap its plan to limit hospital treatment for only the most serious COVID-19 cases and instruct other infected patients to recover at home.
A joint committee of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party dealing with the pandemic met on Aug. 4 and decided to ask the government to retract the proposal.
Earlier, a member of junior coalition partner Komeito made a similar request to Norihisa Tamura, the health minister.
“It is inconceivable that patients with moderate symptoms who require oxygen inhalation should be resting at home,” Komeito lawmaker Michiyo Takagi said on Aug. 4. “I want this proposal to be re-examined, including consideration that it be retracted.”
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