Japan coronavirus infections top 2,000 cases


  • World
  • Tuesday, 31 Mar 2020

A man walks past on a nearly empty street in a snow fall during the first weekend after Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike (not in picture) urged Tokyo residents to stay indoors in a bid to keep the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from spreading, at an shopping and amusement district in Tokyo, Japan March 29, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato

TOKYO (Reuters) - Coronavirus infections in Japan topped 2,000 cases on Tuesday, according to a Reuters calculation based on ministry data and media reports.

A centre for disabled people in Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo, found seven more infections on Tuesday, bringing the total there to 93, Kyodo News reported.

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