• A mother holds her son as he receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Chiba earlier this week. | KYODO
    A mother holds her son as he receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Chiba earlier this week. | KYODO

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Japan confirmed 63,746 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, a decrease of 1,908 from a week before, as well as 231 deaths.

The number of COVID-19 patients with severe symptoms rose by one from Thursday to reach 1,419.

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