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PM: State Of Emergency In Tokyo Will End Sunday

JAPAN

Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has said that the COVID-19 state of emergency measures in Tokyo and three surrounding prefectures will come to an end on Sunday.

  • He also stated that he was 'concerned about the possibility of a rebound in cases'.
  • Japan remains well behind most DM peers in its vaccine rollout, currently standing at 0.35/100 population. However, like other Asian and Australasian DM's, Japan embarked on a strategy of halting the spread of the virus and stopping it from entering the country, as opposed to a fast vaccine rollout. This has seen Japanese COVID-19 deaths standing at 68.9 per million cases compared to 1,310 on average in the EU.

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