Japan governors seek change in COVID reporting to help hospitals cope

Japanese prefectural governors urged the central government Tuesday to limit its daily reporting requirement for coronavirus cases to the elderly and other at-risk people in a bid to lessen the administrative burden on hospitals amid a resurgence of infections."It is more important to save the lives of those around us than to keep track of statistics," said Tottori Gov. Shinji Hirai at a virtual meeting of the National Governors' Association's coronavirus task force.Hirai, who also chairs the association, stressed the figures do not accurately reflect the actual situation as many infections…READ FULL ARTICLE