THREAD: Japan was accused of botching the handling of the outbreak on a luxury cruise ship near Tokyo, but it has been spared explosive surges without a hard lockdown and is praised for widespread mask-wearing. #PandemicAtlashttp://apne.ws/zbLnP8w
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Tokyo and a few other cities requested drinking places to close early until mid-December in their own initiative to slow the infections before the holiday season of parties and traveling.
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Japan’s government is seen as prioritizing the economy over people’s lives. It has ignored repeated advice by experts that the state-led travel promotion campaign to support the pandemic-hit industry should be halted.
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Japan’s handling of the latest upsurge also calls into question plans to hold the Olympics next July, as details would have to be firmed up in the coming weeks.
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The coronavirus emerged a year ago in Wuhan, China, and swept across the world. It brought joblessness and lockdowns, infirmity and death to all corners of the globe. But each nation has its own story of how it coped. Read
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