Japan's daily coronavirus cases exceeded 190,000 on Friday, hitting a new record for the third consecutive day, official data showed, as the country experiences its seventh wave of infections driven by the BA.5 Omicron subvariant.The surge is slowly straining the health care system, but Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said the government is "not considering new restrictions on the movement of people."Instead, to help keep society and the economy running, the government has decided to cut the self-isolation time for people identified as close contacts of a positive case to five days from seven …READ FULL ARTICLE
