Japan's healthcare system is threatening to buckle under the weight of spiking coronavirus cases. Medical teams from the Self-Defense Forces have begun assisting frontline workers at two facilities in the country's north hit with cluster infections.
Five SDF nurses will engage in the mission for two weeks at a hospital where nearly 200 people were confirmed to be infected.
Japan Self-Defense Force medical teams are in the northern prefecture of Hokkaido to help with large clusters of coronavirus infections.
Ground Self-Defense Force personnel started working Wednesday at Keiyu-kai Yoshida Hospital and Hokkaido Ryoikuen, a facility for people with physical and intellectual disabilities.
The Japanese government plans to raise public awareness about high-risk situations for contracting the coronavirus and provide assistance to foreign nationals in the country.
The government is warning people to be wary of five situations that could increase the risk of infection.
Japan's health ministry says coronavirus cluster infections were confirmed at more than 100 locations nationwide in the week through Monday.
The health ministry compiles weekly figures based on data from local governments.
Work continues on the redesigned Nissan Qashqai as spy photographers have snapped a prototype undergoing hot weather testing.
The organizer of a stage production in Tokyo says 37 people, including actors and members of the audience, have been confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus.
The play ran between June 30 and July 5 at Theater Moliere in Shinjuku Ward.
Officials in southwestern Japan have confirmed a cluster infection on an Italian cruise ship currently docked at a shipyard in Nagasaki prefecture.
A Nagasaki prefectural official says that out of 57 who have been tested, 33 have tested positive.
Japan's health ministry has released a map showing clusters of coronavirus infections in the country.
The map on the ministry's website shows 15 clusters in 10 prefectures, as of Sunday.