Vaccines, masks? Japan puzzling over sudden virus success
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October 19, 2021
Eugene Hoshiko, Associated Press
Visitors in yukatas or Japanese traditional summer kimonos wear protective masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus pause at a back ally near Sensoji Temple at Asakusa Monday, Oct. 18, 2021, in Tokyo.
TOKYO - Almost overnight, Japan has become a stunning, and somewhat mysterious, coronavirus success story.
Daily new COVID-19 cases have plummeted from a mid-August peak of nearly 6,000 in Tokyo, with caseloads in the densely populated capital now routinely below 100, an 11-month low.
The bars are packed, the trains are crowded, and the mood is celebratory, despite a general bafflement over what, exactly, is behind the sharp drop.
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