The government formally decided Thursday to lift all remaining coronavirus quasi-state of emergency curbs in Japan as scheduled next week as the number of new infections has recently been on a downtrend.Tokyo and the nearby prefectures of Chiba, Kanagawa and Saitama are among the 18 areas that will see the restrictions end on Monday. Other areas include Aichi, Osaka and Kyoto.With the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of the virus from the beginning of the year, the number of prefectures subject to the curbs expanded to 36 at one point. The remaining 18 have seen the deadlines of the meas…READ FULL ARTICLE
