TOKYO (The Straits Times/ANN): Japan has identified 15 coronavirus clusters nationwide in its first 'cluster map', released on Monday (March 16), as infections continue to rise across the country.
Passersby wearing masks are seen on the street at Susukino district in Sapporo, Japan, on Feb 26, 2020. - Reuters
Nagoya city officials say a cluster tied to a sports gym is waning though they are struggling to cope with another expanding cluster tied to an elderly daycare home. This approach means it has not maxed out its testing capacity, with just 19,420 samples tested altogether as of March 6. This is despite Japan's ability to test up to 6,000 samples a day - a figure that is expected to go up to 8,000 by the end of this month.
But this approach, which differs from countries like South Korea, has called into doubt whether the reported tally was in fact a gross understatement of the ground reality.
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