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Japan has 10,000 coronavirus cases days after declaring state of emergency

By
Jon Levine
Published April 18, 2020, 12:02 p.m. ET
Medical workers walk by coronavirus testing tents at Kawakita General Hospital in Tokyo.
Medical workers walk by coronavirus testing tents at Kawakita General Hospital in Tokyo. Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

Japan officially recorded 10,000 cases of the coronavirus on Saturday, as the deadly pandemic continues to sweep across the globe.

The news was confirmed by state broadcaster NHK and comes just hours after a full state of emergency was declared for the nation at large, Reuters reported.

So far, Japan has not been as hard hit by the virus as China, the United States or several nations in Europe. Only around 200 deaths have so far been reported, but Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is urging residents to stay home amid fears that rural health systems could fail as cases spiked.

The COVID-19 outbreak has already upended Japan, forcing the country to postpone the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, which had been scheduled to take place in Tokyo. Some in the city are now calling for a glittering Olympic Village constructed for the games to be converted into a homeless shelter.

So far, more than 156,000 have died of the deadly virus worldwide, with more than 2.2 million cases.