60% in Japan with cold-like symptoms went to work amid pandemic

About 60 percent of people in Japan who developed cold-like symptoms during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic between February and May went to work, despite the government's request not to do so, a recent survey found.Of 1,226 people aged between 20 and 79 living in Tokyo and neighboring areas who responded to the survey, 82 said they had fevers and other cold-like symptoms, which could have been early signs of COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus.In the online survey conducted in mid-May by a team led by Masaki Machida, an assistant professor at Tokyo Medica…READ FULL ARTICLE