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Tokyo changes tack on coronavirus, focusing on trends over daily cases

Stress on health care system gauged instead of numerical thresholds

The health care system's ability to handle an influx of patients will be tracked under Tokyo's new coronavirus response. (Photo by Takaki Kashiwabara)
HISASHI TSUTSUI, Nikkei staff writer | Japan

TOKYO -- Tokyo will no longer base its response to the coronavirus outbreak on numerical thresholds, but rather on the larger trends in new infections and the ability of hospitals to cope with an influx of patients, Gov. Yuriko Koike said Tuesday.

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