Japan faces another wave of Covid-19 infections in Tokyo and Fukuoka


A medical worker conducts a simulation for a walk-in style polymerase chain reaction test for Covid-19), at a makeshift facility in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, Japan. - Reuters

TOKYO (The Straits Times/ANN): After recording no new Covid-19 cases from April 30 to May 22, the city of Kitakyushu in Fukuoka saw 119 cases in the past 11 days, putting it on the front line of Japan's second wave of infections.

Among them are 11 students from four elementary and junior high schools, prompting school closures again and the shutdown of public facilities such as art galleries that were allowed to reopen on May 18.

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