TV Asahi reports with the latest figure

That is slightly lower compared to the 309 cases found yesterday, but is still resting at a relatively high count when taking into account the current situation in Japan.

As of yesterday's update, there are over 13,000 active cases across the country - the most since the pandemic began - and hospitalisations are starting to increase. To put things into perspective, there was slightly less than 1,000 active cases in Japan as of 30 June.

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