New Coronavirus Outbreak Spreads to Japan

2020/08/06

Drugstore in Tokyo's Chuo Ward Posts Notice Saying 'Povidone-Iodine Gargling Solution Out of Stock,' after Its Use to Kill Novel Coronavirus Recommended by Osaka Governor


     Since its first outbreak in Wuhan, a major Chinese city in Hubei Province, in December 2019, a novel coronavirus has infected hundreds of thousands of people across the globe and killed far more than the virus causing severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, did in 2003, forcing the World Health Organization to declare a global pandemic.

(Jiji Press)

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