Japan COVID-19 Cases Reach 15,263...Daily Record Highs Continue

At Haneda Airport, the capital of Japan where the Summer Olympics are being held, an airport employee wearing a COVID-19 prevention mask was walking inside the premises on the 2nd of this month.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Donghoon Jeong] The daily number of new COVID-19 cases in Japan, where the Tokyo Olympics are being held, continues to break records.

According to the local public broadcaster NHK's tally, as of 6:30 PM on the 5th, 15,263 people across Japan were confirmed as COVID-19 cases. This surpasses the previous day's record of 14,207. The cumulative number of confirmed cases has risen to 987,163. The number of COVID-19 deaths increased by 8, reaching 15,254.

In Tokyo Metropolis, where the Olympics are taking place, 5,042 people were confirmed positive for COVID-19 on the same day. The daily number of cases in Tokyo surged 3.7 times from 1,359 on the Olympic opening day, July 23, to this day, the 14th day of the Olympics.

The Japanese government held a COVID-19 task force meeting chaired by Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on the same day and decided to additionally apply the 'Priority Measures to Prevent the Spread' (hereafter referred to as Priority Measures), a step before a state of emergency, to eight prefectures: Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Shizuoka, Aichi, Shiga, and Kumamoto. The application period is from the 8th to the 31st of this month.

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