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As the number of coronavirus infections reaches unprecedented levels, Japan will allow prefectural governments to take stricter COVID-19 measures tailored to their own needs, Daishiro Yamagiwa, the minister in charge of the government’s reaction to COVID-19, announced on Friday.
Governors can claim that their prefectures want measures to counter the BA. 5 subvariant when their physical care systems are under great pressure, such as when a prefecture’s hospital bed occupancy rate exceeds 50 percent, he said.
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