Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike raised the capital’s health care alert system to its highest level on Thursday, sounding the alarm just hours before the city reported a record-breaking 822 new cases of the novel coronavirus.
The nationwide tally of new cases also hit a record, with media reports putting the figure at 3,211 as of late Thursday evening.
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