New Coronavirus Outbreak Spreads to Japan

2021/01/18

Ushers Hold Banners Calling for Taking Infection Prevention Measures during New Year's Grand Sumo Tournament at Ryogoku Kokugikan Hall in Tokyo


     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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