Japan to scrap quarantine for medical workers exposed to Omicron

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TOKYO - Japan will allow medical workers who have been identified as close contacts of Omicron cases to keep working, after staff absences caused by a 14-day quarantine period stressed the health sys

tem in an area suffering from a large outbreak.

Nationwide new Covid-19 cases jumped by 13,044 on Wednesday , the highest daily figure since September.the number of health care workers taking sick leave climbed to a record, forcing some medical institutions to limit their capacity to accept emergency patients, according to local reports. Tokyo's government raised its Covid-19 alert to the second-highest level on a four-tier system, amid warnings that Omicron is quickly replacing the Delta variant and can cause social disruption.

 

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