TOKYO: New daily Covid-19 infections in Japan hit a record high of 110,600, authorities said on Saturday, as the country enters a seventh wave spurred by the highly transmissible BA.5 Omicron subvariant.
The previous record on Feb 5 this year was 104,169 cases, after which numbers began to drop significantly. However, they have been rising again sharply since mid-June, when the daily figure was just under 14,000.
