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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan on Wednesday recorded 415 COVID-19 deaths, the highest-ever rely for a single day, well being ministry information confirmed.
The nation counted 216,219 newly confirmed coronavirus circumstances on Wednesday, up 4% from every week earlier, the information additionally confirmed, approaching the report excessive of some 260,000 a day in August.
Previously seven days, Japan had the world’s largest confirmed COVID-19 infections and the second-most deaths after america, in keeping with a tally by the World Well being Group.
(Reporting by Kantaro Komiya; Modifying by Chang-Ran Kim)
