COVID-19 round-up
- While many outlets are focusing on the number of infections and deaths, Shukan Shincho thinks the virus is under control.
- Tokyo on Saturday kicked off a 20-day period during which restaurants that serve alcohol and karaoke venues have been asked by the metropolitan government to shorten business hours to help combat a recent resurgence of coronavirus infections.
- In 15 prefectures, the bed occupancy rate topped 25%, which means that the infection situation there has entered the Stage 3 phase, the second-worst level on the four-tier scale gauging the degree of spread of COVID-19.
- In the face of a resurgence of COVID-19 cases nationwide, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is highly unlikely to dissolve the House of Representatives in January, according to informed sources.
