ICHINOSEKI, Japan—One of the developed world’s last regions untouched by Covid-19 reported its first cases as a day of new infection milestones in Japan suggested the country’s success in stemming the new coronavirus was unraveling.
Two people in the prefecture of Iwate were confirmed to have the virus on Wednesday, the first infections in the northern region of more than one million people, while new cases across the country topped 1,000 for the first time. The pandemic in Japan had been centered around Tokyo, but the western…
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