Lagatar24 Desk
Tokyo, Dec.22: Japan reported the first case of community-wide coronavirus infection caused by the Omicron variety On Wednesday.
Because the infection pathway was not evident, health minister Shigeyuki Goto claimed three Omicron variant infections in the prefecture of Osaka were examples of community transfer.
Osaka Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura told a coronavirus policy meeting on Wednesday that the cases are from the same family and that none of the patients have been abroad.
“I believe this counts as a case of community transfer. I think this will become the first in Osaka prefecture, and the first in the country,” Yoshimura said.
World’s third largest economy has tightened border restrictions and promised to speed up booster shots as Omicron worries mount.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida indicated that the country’s Covid -19 border controls, which are among the tightest in the world, would be maintained for the time being.
Since the start of the pandemic, Japan has experienced 1.73 million coronavirus infections and 18,391 fatalities, but the number of new infections has been declining.
