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Japan Lifts Cap on Event Attendance Ahead of Downgrading COVID-19 Category
The government lifted its restriction on crowd size at large events after it revised its basic respo...
January 28, 2023
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Govt to Lower COVID-19 Classification on May 8
The government has decided on a plan to lower the classification of COVID-19 under the Infectious Di...
January 26, 2023
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Experts Divided on Lowering of COVID-19 Classification in Japan
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Experts are divided over the Japanese government’s plan to lower the classific...
January 22, 2023
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Japan Urged to Remain Vigilant Against New Coronavirus Variants
A virology expert has called for vigilance against new coronavirus variants ahead of the downgradin...
January 22, 2023
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Japan Mulls Lowering COVID-19 Classification Around Early May
The government is considering lowering the classification of COVID-19 under the Infectious Diseases ...
January 21, 2023
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Japan to Consider Relaxing Indoor Mask-Wearing Guidelines
Now that the classification of COVID-19 will be lowered in spring to Category V, the government will...
January 21, 2023
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Kishida OK’s Lowering of COVID-19 Classification
A 90-year-old woman was found dead Thursday in her house in Komae, Tokyo, in a suspected robbery-ho...
January 20, 2023
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8th wave of pandemic piles pressure on emergency services
The nation’s emergency services are reeling amid the eighth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, with such...
January 20, 2023
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Diet Speakers No Longer Required to Wear Masks from Monday
The ruling and opposition parties have agreed that speakers at plenary sessions of the Diet will no ...
January 20, 2023
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Kishida Instructs Ministers to Consider Lowering COVID Classification
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday made a step toward normalizing social activities amid the COV...
January 20, 2023
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Japan’s Decision to Reclassify COVID Expected in Spring
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has outlined a policy to lower the classification of COVID-19 from the ...
January 19, 2023
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Japan Hospitals Shift Toward Co-Existing with COVID
With Sunday marking three years since the first confirmed case of novel coronavirus infection in the...
January 16, 2023
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Board of Audit Inspection Finds COVID Grants Put Loss-Making Hospitals in the Black
The Board of Audit reported on Friday that a number of loss-making hospitals have moved into the bla...
January 14, 2023
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Japan records highest-ever daily COVID death toll
Japan registered 520 deaths from the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, exceeding 500 daily deaths for...
January 12, 2023
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520 Japan COVID-19 deaths confirmed in single day, exceeding 500 for 1st time
For the first time in Japan, more than 500 people died of novel coronavirus on a single day, it was ...
January 11, 2023
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