Japan will lift its restrictions on travel across prefectures on Friday as scheduled as the spread of the novel coronavirus has been kept in check, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday."We're raising the level of social and economic activities further," Abe told a meeting of a government task force on the coronavirus. "There will be no restrictions on movement (beyond prefectures)."Abe ended the nationwide state of emergency he declared by late May. But people have been advised to avoid travel to and from Tokyo and Chiba, Kanagawa and Saitama prefectures in the Tokyo metropolitan area, a…READ FULL ARTICLE
