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- Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has lifted the coronavirus-related state of emergency for 39 of the country’s 47 prefectures. But he has kept it in place for Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo and Hokkaido.
- The Tokyo Metropolitan Government says nine people were confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus on Friday. Six of the cases have untraceable infection routes.
- Japan’s health minister says his ministry will launch large-scale antibody testing to see how widely the coronavirus has spread in the country.
- Japan is lifting its state of emergency for almost 80 percent of the prefectures ahead of schedule. But Prime Minister Abe Shinzo says people in those areas must continue to stay on the alert to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
- A Japanese chemical manufacturer says it will resume production later this week of an organic compound needed to produce a drug for treating coronavirus patients. Tokyo-based Denka announced on Wednesday that its Omi Plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, will resume production of diethyl malonate, a key ingredient for the anti-flu drug Avigan, on May 16.
- A credit research firm says more than 130 Japanese companies have gone bankrupt due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Teikoku Databank said 81 companies filed for bankruptcy as of Monday evening. It added 52 other companies are in the process of liquidation. Thus a total of 133 firms have gone under.
- The whole of Japan has been under a state of emergency for about a month, but the government is poised to lift the declaration for about 80 percent of the prefectures.
- India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a more than 260-billion-dollar package to support the nation’s economy which has been hurt by a lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak.
- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says three upstate regions could start reopening their economic activities this weekend.