Japan's new COVID cases top 40,000 for 2nd day, braces for 7th wave

Japan confirmed 47,977 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, twice the number a week earlier and exceeding the 40,000 mark for the second day, as the country braces for a seventh wave of coronavirus infections amid a rebound.Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike said at a metropolitan government meeting that the capital "can be considered to have entered the seventh wave" as it confirmed 8,529 new cases on Thursday.Tottori confirmed 219 daily infections, a record for the western Japan prefecture since the start of the pandemic, while Chiba Prefecture confirmed a daily count of 2,081. Osaka Prefecture reported …READ FULL ARTICLE