As the sixth wave of the coronavirus pandemic continues, local governments are taking a variety of measures to help people recuperating at home.
Due to the spread of the highly contagious omicron variant, the number of COVID-19 patients staying at home topped 350,000 in late January, far exceeding the 130,000 cases during the peak of the fifth wave. Local governments are scraping together the manpower to deliver emergency food by bicycle and lending out motor homes to those who need to isolate from family members, as infections are expected to spread within households.
