Coronavirus cases spike in Tokyo as Japan moves closer to national emergency

Tokyo saw its highest number of infections in a single day as its governor urged residents to stay at home over the weekend.

cases on Saturday, as Japan edges closer to a state of national emergency.The city’s governor Yuriko Koike warned earlier in the week that the Japanese capital was entering an ‘important phase in preventing an explosive rise in the number of infections.’Shinzo Abe has warned that Japan is close to a national emergency. It remained at the level until the weekend, bringing the total number of cases in the capital to 299 by Friday evening.

On Saturday, it was confirmed that there were 63 new cases of coronavirus in the capital. The number of infections has now reached 362 in total.The news came as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned the country was , and promised an unprecedented package to protect the world’s third-biggest economy from the damage done by the pandemic.

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