Health
Japan expands state of emergency as coronavirus cases soar but many say it is too late – ABC News
The threat of Japan’s hospital system collapsing amid surging coronavirus cases forces Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to expand a state of emergency so it covers…
Japan has just expanded its state of emergency to cover another seven regions as the country confronts record numbers of coronavirus infections and a new mutant strain from Brazil.
Japan’s health ministry announced it had detected the variant in four travellers from Brazil’s Amazonas state, which had 12 mutations including one also found in highly infectious variants discovered in England and South Africa.
The four people are in their teens and 40s and were detected by the country’s airport quarantine…
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