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Tokyo Records 3,709 New COVID-19 Cases As Surge Continues

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Gearoid Reidy at Bloomberg tweets the latest COVID-19 stats from the Japanese capital, Tokyo: "Tokyo coronavirus case count for today is 3,709. Previous two Tuesdays: 2,848, 1,387. 7-day average: 3,337.4.. Serious cases -2 to 112. Cases in over-65s: 115 (3.1%)"

  • PM Yoshihide Suga's approval ratings remain in the mire, with the latest Nikkei/TV Tokoyo poll giving him and his Cabinet an approval rating of just 34% (the lowest for a Japanese PM in nine years), down 9% on the previous month and, as Nikkei states "entering into territory that for most has foreshadowed an end to their time in office."

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