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Record Japan elders carrying Covid

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TOKYO – The Tokyo metropolitan government said elderly people are contracting Covid-19 at an “unprecedented” rate as the Omicron variant runs rampant across Japan. Patients aged 65 or above comprised 8.5 per cent of the 127,357 new infections reported, according to official figures. For those seven days, the total number of elderly people carrying the … Read more

Japan confirms over 2,000 daily COVID-19 cases, record high since September 2021

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TOKYO, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) — Japan confirmed more than 2,000 new COVID-19 cases nationwide on Wednesday, almost doubling the number the previous day and for the first time surpassing 2,000 in more than three months since Sept. 26, 2021. The Tokyo metropolitan government reported 390 new confirmed cases Wednesday, up from 151 the previous day … Read more