Japan logs record daily 255,000 COVID-19 cases

Japan posted about 255,000 daily coronavirus infections on Thursday, hitting a record high as the country grapples with the seventh wave of the pandemic.Fueled by the highly transmissible Omicron BA.5 subvariant, the tally eclipsed the previous record of 250,403 cases logged on Aug. 10.The number is expected to increase further as more people chose to travel to see their families during Japan's Bon summer holidays without any behavioral restrictions.The record figure came even as the nationwide tally for the week through Wednesday decreased to about 87 percent of the figure for the previous…READ FULL ARTICLE