TOKYO -- Responding to a dramatic surge in COVID-19 cases, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Friday evening declared an expanded state of emergency in the capital's neighboring Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures, as well as Osaka.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga calls on his country's citizens to watch the Olympics at home, in a news conference on July 30 to announce the expansion of COVID restrictions. (Photo by Uichiro Kasai)
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