Tokyo raises COVID alert to highest amid resurgence of infections

TOKYO. KAZINFORM - The Tokyo metropolitan government raised its COVID-19 alert to the highest of four levels Thursday amid a resurgence of coronavirus infections, Kyodo reports.

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The decision was made after the highly-transmissible BA.5 Omicron subvariant saw Japan enter its seventh wave of infections.


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