People wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the new coronavirus walk on a beach on a national holiday in Fujisawa, Kanagawa prefecture, near Tokyo. “Please be mindful of your actions and do your utmost not to get infected, and not to infect others,” Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said today. Three prefectures neighboring Tokyo — Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba — also recorded record daily cases yesterday for a combined total of 170. Osaka also had a daily record of 121. Nationwide, Japan had 775 new confirmed cases yesterday, the largest daily increase since 720 on April 11 during an earlier peak, for a national total of 27,029 cases.-AP

Source: The Standard July 23, 2020 09:45 UTC