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Tokyo logs 1,223 cases

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The Yomiuri Shimbun

17:38 JST, January 9, 2022

Tokyo confirmed 1,223 new coronavirus cases Sunday, up 1,139 from a week earlier and the daily count topped 1,200 for the second straight day.

In Okinawa Prefecture, there were 1,533 new cases on Sunday. The number for the previous day was a record-high 1,759.

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