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The Japan News/Yomiuri
The Japan News/Yomiuri
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The Yomiuri Shimbun

Quasi-emergency measures to end Monday

(Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

The government plans to completely end the quasi-emergency measures currently applied to Tokyo, Osaka and 16 other prefectures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus infections on Monday as scheduled.

This will be the first time in about two months that there will be no such measures in place since they took effect on Jan. 9.

The priority measures will be ended for Tokyo, Osaka, Hokkaido, Aomori, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa, Ishikawa, Shizuoka, Gifu, Aichi, Kyoto, Hyogo, Kagawa and Kumamoto prefectures.

Read more from The Japan News at https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/

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