• The government said it had detected more than 20 cases of the Indian variant of COVID-19 in Japan as of Monday — a rise in the number of cases of a potentially worrisome new strain that some fear could prove more resistant to vaccinations. | REUTERS
    The government said it had detected more than 20 cases of the Indian variant of COVID-19 in Japan as of Monday — a rise in the number of cases of a potentially worrisome new strain that some fear could prove more resistant to vaccinations. | REUTERS
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The government on Monday said it has so far detected more than 20 cases of the Indian variant of COVID-19 in Japan — a rise in the number of cases of the potentially worrisome new strain that some fear could prove more resistant to existing vaccines.

“According to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, a total of 21 cases were confirmed in the country, of which 20 were found in airport quarantine and one was confirmed among domestic cases,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, the government’s top spokesman, told a news conference Monday.

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