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Japan Lifts State of Emergency After Sharp Decline in New Cases

‘UNDER CONTROL’

India also resumed domestic flights in the country even as the coronavirus threat rages on with 7,000 new infections, the biggest 24-hour jump on record.

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Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday lifted the country’s state of emergency in Tokyo and the northernmost island of Hokkaido, declaring that the spread of the coronavirus is now under control.

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