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Japan extends Covid-19 state of emergency until end of May
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Japan's prime minister has extended a state of emergency over the coronavirus until the end of May, as the government warned it was too soon to lift restrictions. "I will extend the period of the state of emergency I declared on 7 April until 31 May.
The area covered is all prefectures in the nation," Shinzo Abe said after a meeting to discuss the measures. Abe declared a month-long state of emergency that initially covered Tokyo and six other regions on 7 April, later expanding it to cover the entire country.
It had been due to expire on Wednesday, but the country's minister for the virus response Yasutoshi Nishimura said earlier that new infections were still growing. "The number of new cases has declined, but unfortunately the decrease
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