The government has no immediate plan to place Tokyo and Fukuoka Prefecture under a state of emergency again despite the areas seeing an increase in the number of coronavirus infection cases in recent days, economy minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said Sunday.Nishimura, the minister in charge of Japan's virus response, said he does not expect new infection case numbers to increase rapidly as the country reopens its economy but he will continue to carefully monitor the situation."We have not come to a stage of reinstating a state of emergency," Nishimura told a press conference.The southwestern c…READ FULL ARTICLE
