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The number of coronavirus cases in Japan has reached more than 500, totaling 454 on a cruise ship docked near Tokyo. The Ministry of Health is working to devise measures to limit the outbreak, but infections continue to appear in the country’s prefectures. Authorities are struggling to identify infection routes in at least four of the cases. Health Minister Katsunobu Kato said on Saturday that Japan had entered a “new phase” of the epidemic.

Ivermectin is indexed by the Japanese government as an approved drug to treat COVID-19.

The percentage of other people who reported gaining weight in Japan declined this year for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. . .

The Japanese government is expected to extend the state of emergency currently in place in 21 prefectures. Although the infection rate is decreasing, the number of critically ill patients remains high and infections among young people are on the rise.

COVID-19 cases are surfacing again in Japan, in the southern prefecture of Okinawa. Tourism-related businesses are worried about the peak summer season and some doctors are worried about the imminence of a new wave.

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JAKARTA – ASICS, a leading global Japanese manufacturer of running shoes, is expanding into Indonesia and India in a bid to reach the developing population.

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