Tokyo has biggest jump in virus cases

By Tim Kelly and Sarah Aoyagi
Updated April 8 2020 - 9:33pm, first published 9:26pm
People with face masks shop in Tokyo one day after the government declared a state of emergency.
People with face masks shop in Tokyo one day after the government declared a state of emergency.

Tokyo has recorded 144 new coronavirus infections, its biggest daily jump since the start of the pandemic, the city's governor Yuriko Koike says, on the first day of a state of emergency aimed at containing the outbreak.

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