The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------Japan's governors call for COVID lockdown amid spike in infectionsTOKYO - Japan's governors urged the central government on Friday to consider imposing a lockdown to better contain a spike in COVID-19 cases, calling the current measures "ineffective" in fighting the highly contagious Delta variant rapidly spreading across the country.The call by the National Governors' Association during their online meeting came after a COVID state of emergency took effect in seven more prefectures the same day, with restri…READ FULL ARTICLE