Also worth flagging this weekend article......>

JAPAN: Also worth flagging this weekend article from Kyodo: "The government has

decided to allow the reopening of parks, museums, libraries and other public

facilities in areas with high coronavirus counts and to ease its request for

slashing social contact, a senior official said Sunday. As part of efforts to

deal with public fatigue from the nationwide state of emergency, economic

revitalization minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said at a news conference the

government will permit such facilities to reopen if sufficient measures to slow

the virus's spread are put in place. The government will release guidelines on

how to resume social activities on Monday, when it is expected to formally

extend the state of emergency. A government source said Sunday that Prime

Minister Shinzo Abe will extend the declaration until May 31. Abe will hold a

news conference on the matter at 6 p.m. Monday."