The Japanese government will provide financial support to help local governments arrange substitute facilities to look after children if their nurseries close due to coronavirus infections, the health ministry said Tuesday.The ministry will introduce an exception to regular rules so community centers and children's centers will be allowed to accept children from nurseries even when there are not enough licensed carers for the number of children they look after, according to a set of new COVID-19 measures announced by the ministry.Given the recent spread of the highly-transmissible Omicron v…READ FULL ARTICLE
