TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Monday his government will take all possible measures to protect the country’s medical system, as hospitals creak under the strain of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“What is important is to provide necessary medical services to people in need. We will exhaust all measures to safeguard the medical system,” Suga said in his policy speech at the start of a regular session of parliament.Japan, though less seriously hit by the pandemic than many other advanced economies, has seen infections spike in recent weeks, prompting Japan Medical Association president Toshio Nakagawa to say the nation’s medical system is collapsing.
Total coronavirus cases in Japan have doubled over the past six weeks to about 330,000, according to public broadcaster NHK, with 4,525 fatalities. A Seoul court this month ordered Japan to compensate 12 women who had been forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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