Daily Mail: Japan declares state of emergency in Tokyo less than 200 days before start of the Olympics as city struggles to keep coronavirus under control... with deaths having DOUBLED in under two months
* Tokyo has been put in a month-long state of emergency after a Covid-19 spike
* The city recorded a daily record of 2,447 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday
* Deaths from the virus have also doubled over the past two months to 3,700
* Japan’s prime minister Yoshihide Suga insists the Olympics will still go ahead
* Exhibitions of the Olympic torch around Tokyo have already been postponed
Japan has declared a month-long state of emergency in Tokyo – less than 200 days before the start of the Olympic Games.
The host city has been put under the Japanese government’s most severe restrictions for the first time since last April after reporting a new daily record of 2,447 coronavirus cases on Thursday, shattering Wednesday’s previous high of 1,591.
Deaths nationwide have passed 3,700 – doubling in less than two months.
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