Yoshihide Suga, Japan's prime minister and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), speaks during the party's annual convention in Tokyo, Japan, on Sunday, March 21, 2021. Suga said the state of emergency in the Tokyo region would end on Sunday after targets for relieving strain on the health care system were reached, even as coronavirus cases in the capital rose slightly. - Bloomberg
TOKYO, March 21 (AP): Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga pledged on Sunday to do his utmost to prevent a resurgence of the coronavirus ahead of the Olympic torch relay and his upcoming visit to Washington.
Suga was addressing his ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s annual convention, just hours ahead of the planned lifting of a virus state of emergency in the the Tokyo region. Suga said after the state of emergency is lifted is "an extremely important time” for virus prevention.
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