TOKYO -- Japan is highly likely to have recorded community transmission of a COVID-19 variant spreading in the U.K., the country's health ministry said Monday, as it confirmed for the first time multiple cases from people with no recent travel history abroad.
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Japan likely records local transmission of UK COVID variant
Three of four people infected did not travel abroad or meet those who did
A medical worker wearing a protective suit conducts a simulation for a polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, test at the Narita International Airport PCR Center, east of Tokyo, on Nov. 2. © Reuters
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