Record 1,220 cases of coronavirus in Osaka

Declare a state of emergency to stem the tide of new pandemic coronavirus Osaka prefect Hirofumi Yoshimura will ask the Japanese government to confirm 1,220 SARS-CoV-2 laboratory cases, a new record, on Sunday.

Osaka, the third most populous prefecture of the Japanese archipelago, like several others, is in an “almost” state of emergency, which means that implement targeted measures to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, as AMPE explains.

“We should see the fruits of these measures now, but instead” a “record number” was recorded, the prefect stressed to journalists during statements he made digitally. “The health services are in a terrible state, and we have decided that an emergency needs to be imposed,” he explained.

In total, according to the Ministry of Health, Japan has so far recorded almost 9,600 deaths due to COVID-19 out of a total of about 535,000 cases. SARS-CoV-2.

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