TOKYO -- Nippon Telegraph & Telephone and other major corporations are telling large swaths of their workers to stay home after Tokyo, Osaka and two other prefectures entered a new coronavirus state of emergency on Sunday.
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NTT sends 80% of staff back home with eye on COVID variant
Hitachi, Nippon Yusen and Mitsubishi Estate also go remote
Pedestrians at a crossing in Shibuya ward, Tokyo: New, more infectious variants of the coronavirus are driving a surge in cases in Japan. © Reuters
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