Japan's Kyoto to ask gov't to be part of state of emergency areas

The Kyoto prefectural government will request the central government to add it to regions placed under a state of emergency amid the coronavirus epidemic, Gov. Takatoshi Nishiwaki said Friday.Nishiwaki announced the plan as the number of people infected with the virus has topped 160 in the prefecture, one of the top tourist destinations in Japan, adjacent to Osaka and Hyogo prefectures which are already covered by the emergency declaration."(We are) in a severe situation," Nishiwaki told a press conference, noting that infection routes of many of the new cases confirmed in the region over t…READ FULL ARTICLE