Amid Olympic 2020, Tokyo reported 3,709 new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, while eighteen more people in the city associated with the Tokyo Olympics have been tested positive.
Kyodo News reported new cases that topped 3,000 for five consecutive days in Tokyo and doctors have also criticised the government’s response to the rising cases. Overall, 12,017 new cases of coronavirus have been reported in the country which is the second-highest single-day record.
A day earlier, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga decided that only patients with severe cases of COVID-19 can be admitted to hospitals, making a policy U-turn.
Meanwhile, on July 31 Japan declared a state of emergency to Tokyo, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa, Osaka, and Okinawa Prefectures and applied priority measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 to Hokkaido, Ishikawa, Kyoto, Hyogo, and Fukuoka Prefectures till August 31.
“We ask people to refrain from going out or travelling for non-essential, non-urgent reasons, and to be as careful and restrained as possible regarding returning to their hometowns during the summer and other travel,” PM’s Office of Japan tweeted a few days back.
“We will continue to do everything in our capacity to implement measures to prevent infections and administer vaccines,” added the tweet
