Tokyo confirmed 9,468 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, a day after the daily figure topped the 10,000-threshold for the first time ever.
With the rapid spread of the omicron variant, the capital’s daily COVID-19 count rewrote its record high for four straight days through Saturday.
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