The Japanese government decided Tuesday to extend the COVID-19 state of emergency covering Tokyo and five other areas to Sept. 12, while expanding the measure to seven more prefectures as a resurgence of infections shows no signs of subsiding.Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced the extension of the emergency beyond the previous end date of Aug. 31 and the addition of Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Shizuoka, Kyoto, Hyogo and Fukuoka on Friday, warning that the country is seeing an "unprecedented" rise in coronavirus cases nationwide due to the highly contagious Delta variant.Suga said at a tas…READ FULL ARTICLE
