Tokyo reported 21,122 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, the second-highest daily tally on record, the metropolitan government said, as the highly transmissible Omicron variant continues to spread rapidly across Japan and lead to an increase in seriously ill patients.The figure came after the Japanese capital recently confirmed a record 21,576 new coronavirus cases, and as Tokyo remains under a quasi-state of emergency amid its sixth wave of infections driven by Omicron, with concerns over infections among young people spreading to other family members.Tokyo recently unveiled a set of new benc…READ FULL ARTICLE