Japan is on the brink of a rapid expansion in coronavirus cases, an expert panel warned, a day after global stocks suffered their worst session in two years on fears over the accelerating international spread of the disease.
The government panel said that the country’s 160 confirmed cases were detected in more than 16 different prefectures and in numerous cases the source of the infection was not clear. This excluded cases from an infected cruise ship and Japanese evacuees from China.
“We are at the crossroads,” Shigeru Omi, head of the Japan Community Health Care Organization and a former regional director for the World Health Organization, said on Tuesday. “Local transmission is already going on.”
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