Japan warned on Thursday that a new wave of COVID-19 infections appeared to be spreading rapidly and urged people to take special care ahead of an approaching long weekend and school summer vacations.
Tokyo's 16,878 new cases on Wednesday were the highest since February, while the nationwide tally rose above 90,000, in a recent surge of COVID-19 infections to levels unseen since early this year. The Japanese capital marked 16,662 new cases on Thursday.
"The coronavirus is spreading throughout the nation and through all age groups," he said, urging people to make sure they got their booster shots—especially those in their 20s and 30s, whose vaccination rate is lagging.Additional steps included making fourth shots available to a wider range of people and establishing free testing sites at railway stations and airports, he said.
But he added that no restrictions on movement were needed yet and he had no immediate plans to tighten border controls above the current level, which—with tourists limited to small group tours—remain among the strictest in the world.The capital raised its alert level to the highest tier. The BA.5 variant accounts for more than half of the new cases.
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