An employee of Tokyo Metro wearing a protective face mask works amid the COVID-19 outbreak, at Tokyo Metro's newly-opened Toranomon Hills Station in Tokyo, Japan, Jun 6, 2020. TOKYO: Japan will stop short of offering blanket COVID-19 tests, and instead target the vulnerable and those most at risk in seeking to prevent a second wave of infections, the minister in charge of policies to combat the health crisis said.
Even if someone initially tests negative, the person could return a positive test days later depending on his or her behaviour during that period. Ideally, Japan would test the entire population all at once and isolate those who are positive, though that would be"impossible realistically", he said.
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