Japan's count of reported daily coronavirus cases exceeded 13,000 on Wednesday for the first time in over four months, as a sixth wave of the pandemic spurred by the Omicron variant continues to spread across the country.The nationwide tally stood at 13,244, with Tokyo accounting for 2,198 of the cases and marking the first time in over four months that the count has surpassed 2,000.The pace in which the nationwide figure has surged has been swift, with the more than 1,000 cases confirmed on Jan. 4 now topping 10,000 in only eight days.The figure reported Wednesday by the metropolitan gover…READ FULL ARTICLE
