TOKYO, July 15 — Tokyo is on its highest coronavirus alert level after a spike in new cases, the city’s governor warned today, as experts said the rising infections were a clear “red flag”. However, the move to a “red” alert does not mean the city will ask businesses to close or events...
Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike said expert consensus stated the virus seemed to be spreading. — AFP pic
“The experts just told us that the situation of infections is at the fourth level of the four-level system, which means ‘the infections seem to be spreading,’” Governor Yuriko Koike said during a meeting on the virus. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lifted a nationwide state of emergency in late May and appears to have little appetite to reintroduce it, with the economy suffering its first recession since 2015.
As of today, there were only seven people requiring intensive care for coronavirus and authorities have insisted that the medical system is in better shape than at the height of the previous wave in April.
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