Singapore, July 12 -- Six weeks after Tokyo lifted a state of emergency and with its economy battered into recession, the Japanese capital is setting unwelcome new records of daily Covid-19 cases.
The 224 new infections last Thursday broke a high of 206 cases that was recorded on April 17, a mere 10 days after the state of emergency was imposed.
This was quickly broken the next day, when 243 new cases were recorded, with a further 206 yesterday.
Elsewhere, the south-western prefecture of Kagoshima had just 11 cases as of June 30 - a figure that had soared to 137 by yesterday.
Okinawa recorded over 50 cases yesterday, chiefly due to clusters at the United States Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. Osaka had 31 cases last Thursday, the ...