The number of people in Japan with COVID-19 who have been instructed to stay home to recuperate stood at a record 118,035 as of Wednesday, topping 100,000 for the first time, the health ministry has said,
The total was up sixfold from 18,927 on July 28, the ministry announced Friday.
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