Japan's Osaka to ask government to declare state of emergency: Governor
19 April, 2021
Osaka will ask japan government to declare circumstances of emergency in order to reverse the rise in coronavirus cases, the governor of the country's third-most populous prefecture said on Monday (Apr 19).
Osaka and many other prefectures have been around in a "quasi-emergency" state for 14 days, with targeted measures targeted at controlling the spread of COVID-19.
"The fruits of these measures should be appearing now, however when we go through the number of infections from yesterday, it had been 1,220 cases, which is a record high," Hirofumi Yoshimura told reporters in comments carried online.
"Medical services are also in a dire state, and we've decided that people desire a state of emergency.
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