(ANSA) - TOKYO, APRIL 04 - Coronavirus infections continue to rise in Japan, especially in the city of Osaka - which for the fifth consecutive day exceeds the number of deposits in Tokyo.
The second urban agglomeration of the archipelago has updated the record with 666 cases of Covid in the last 24 hours, bringing the total in the prefecture of the same name to 54,096 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Among the 47 prefectures of Japan, as many as 42 have reported exponential increases compared to last week, the data of the Ministry of Health reveal, once again putting the hospitals in distress after the end of the state of emergency decided on 21 March.
In the capital Tokyo, 442 day counters were registered, causing the alert state to settle at the third level on a maximum scale of 4, together with the prefecture of Hyogo, surpassed only by Osaka and the prefecture north-west of Miyagi.
The current health emergency has led the governor of Osaka, Hirofumi Yoshimura, to ask the organizers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics to divert the path of the Olympic relay, scheduled in the city on April 13.
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