Japan plans to bring forward the lifting of the coronavirus state of emergency to Sunday for Osaka, Kyoto and four other prefectures given a falling number of infections there, government officials said.Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, meanwhile, is considering maintaining the state of emergency in Tokyo and three adjacent prefectures until its current end date of March 7, the officials said Wednesday.The government is likely to make decisions about the six prefectures -- Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, Aichi, Fukuoka and Gifu -- and the four others, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama, after holding a m…READ FULL ARTICLE
