Japan declares state of emergency

The World

When we first began hearing about the coronavirus, one of the centers of the outbreak was in Japan. Technically, it was off the coast of Japan, on a cruise ship, the Diamond Princess. But it’s only now that Japan has declared a state of emergency. Patrick Winn, The World’s Asia correspondent, has the story. 

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