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The seventh wave of coronavirus infections in Japan, which began in late June and peaked in late August, the largest to date in the country, with new daily cases surpassing 200,000 at one point to make it the world’s No. 1 COVID-19 hotspot for weeks. .
While the wave of infections, fueled through the BA. 5 subvariant of the omicron variant, has subsided, some questions remain unanswered.
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