Tokyo reported on Saturday 736 cases of novel coronavirus, the second-highest daily increase, bringing the monthly tally, already above the record cases logged last month, to 9,951.Saturday's figure is the largest since the record 822 was confirmed on Thursday. Total cases in December so far have surpassed the 9,857 cases for the full month of November, with the cumulative figure at more than 50,000.More than 2,900 new cases were confirmed nationwide Saturday with record infections reported in Saitama and Okayama prefectures, bringing the cumulative total close to 200,000.Japan's seven-day …READ FULL ARTICLE
