Tokyo says fewer than 20 daily new cases vital to ease virus steps

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike unveiled Friday a road map for the easing of measures aimed at overcoming the spread of the novel coronavirus in the capital, as Japan has recently been seeing a decrease in new infections.The metropolitan government set seven numerical targets, including seeing fewer than 20 new daily cases of COVID-19 on average in a week, and a decline in the proportion of unknown transmission routes to under 50 percent, Koike said at a press conference.The other targets include the number of seriously ill patients, the number of hospitalized patients, and the rate of people testi…READ FULL ARTICLE