New Coronavirus Outbreak Spreads to Japan

2021/04/16

Doctor Gives 88-Year-Old Woman Coronavirus Vaccine Shot in Village of Kitaaiki, Nagano Prefecture; Govt Starts Vaccinations for Some 3.6 Million Elderly People, or 30 Pct of Japanese Population, Aiming for Completion by End-June


     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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