IN WAKE OF RISING INFECTIONS, TOKYO TO EXTEND COVID-19 CURBS: REPORT

Highlights

• While the government had lifted state of emergency in nearly nine prefectures, Tokyo and three neighbouring prefectures were kept under a 'quasi' state of emergency till July 11

According to the sources, the Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga government of Japan is planning to extend COVID-19 curbs by two weeks in the greater Tokyo area. With less than a month to the much awaited Tokyo Olympics, this de....