Japanese PM not mulling Covid state of emergency for Tokyo

TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday said a state of emergency for Tokyo was not being considered at the moment despite a surge in Covid-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant.

The hospitalisation rate in Tokyo of those with Covid-19 is moving towards the 50 per cent threshold whereby the metropolitan government would think about requesting the full emergency measures be implemented for fears that the hospitals could quickly become overburdened. Most recently, the rate in hospitals in the capital hit 48.5 per cent Sunday, prompting Kishida to clarify his current stance on the state of emergency on Monday. IANS

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