January 6th – On the 6th, local time, for the first time since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the number of new confirmed cases in Japan exceeded 5,000 in a single day.
In the face of the expanding scale of infection, the Japanese government decided to launch a state of emergency again in the three prefectures of the capital circle on the 7th.
According to a report by Japan’s Kyodo News Agency on the 6th, several prefectures in Japan experienced the largest one-day increase on the same day, including 1,591 cases in Tokyo, 364 cases in Aichi Prefecture and 311 cases in Chiba Prefecture.
The Japanese government has decided to restart the state of emergency in the capital circle of Tokyo, Chiba, Saitama and Kanagawa prefectures, which will be officially announced on January 7 and will last for a period of one month.
