Osaka Finds 4 Omicron Cases Indicating Community Spread, NHK Says
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Japan confirmed its first cases of community spread of the omicron variant in Osaka prefecture after finding three cases it couldn’t trace.
The new variant probably hasn’t spread to a wider region, Health Minister Shigeyuki Goto said in a press conference Wednesday. Of the four omicron cases reported, three were not linked to overseas travel, the Osaka prefecture said in a statement on its website earlier.