Prognosis
Japan Expands Virus Restrictions to Tokyo, Kyoto Amid Surge
- Latest measures are broadly similar to ones imposed earlier
- Move comes three weeks after emergency lifted in capital
Tokyo's Shinjuku area on April 2. Japan has so far suffered a far lower death toll than the U.S. or most European countries, at fewer than 10,000 people, compared with about 127,000 in the U.K., which has about half the population.
Photographer: Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images
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Japan will reimpose restrictions in Tokyo, Kyoto and Okinawa aimed at reining in a rapid spread of the coronavirus in those areas, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said, three weeks after ending a state of emergency in the capital.