Reconstruction in the wake of torrential rain that hit southwestern Japan has been hampered by a manpower shortage amid the coronavirus pandemic, as Tuesday marked one month since the disaster that killed 76 people and left three others missing in the region.The hardest-hit prefecture of Kumamoto, where 65 people died, and 1,408 were living in evacuation shelters as of Monday, has struggled to secure sufficient workers for recovery efforts, such as removal of debris because it only solicits volunteers locally for fear of importing the virus.A public health nurse in his 30s, who was sent to …READ FULL ARTICLE
