The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------Okinawa hit by record infections seeks to be part of emergency areasTOKYO - Okinawa on Wednesday asked the central government to add it to areas under a COVID-19 state of emergency as the southern island prefecture saw a record number of infections.The prefecture reported 203 daily new infections among its population of 1.5 million, up from 168 the previous day, with Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki saying the local health care system is in a "crisis situation."---------…READ FULL ARTICLE