Japan's government offices and many companies marked their final business day of 2022 on Wednesday, with public health centers declaring a "desperate situation" amid an eighth wave of coronavirus infections, while some big firms continued to reel from scandals."There is no holiday mood," said Mieko Harada, who heads a public health center in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward, adding that the center has been struggling to cope with an influx of COVID-19 patients and to secure enough hospital beds since mid-December."I hope this will be the last year we have to worry about the coronavirus," said a senior …READ FULL ARTICLE
