Daily COVID-19 cases in Olympic host city Tokyo hit a record high for a second straight day on Wednesday, topping 3,000 for the first time since the pandemic began.
Coronavirus disease outbreak in TokyoTOKYO -Daily COVID-19 cases in Olympic host city Tokyo hit a record high for a second straight day on Wednesday, topping 3,000 for the first time since the pandemic began, local media reported, as the spike in infections puts pressure on hospitals.
Governors of three prefectures near Tokyo will ask the government to declare states of emergency for their regions, a cabinet minister said, after daily cases hit 2,848 on Tuesday. "I think we have entered a mode of sharp rises in cases, which I had feared the most," Yuji Kuroiwa, governor of Kanagawa prefecture near Tokyo, told reporters. Kanagawa and nearby Chiba and Saitama prefectures are seeing cases jump.
“As a city resident myself and as an organiser, my heart hurts that case numbers are rising ," Tokyo 2020 spokesperson Masa Takaya told a news conference.He repeated that strict measures were in place inside the “Olympic bubble”. Many Japanese have worried about a spread of infections from Olympics participants.
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