Coronavirus: India’s new cases hit eight-month high, full impact weeks away; Japan widens curbs to nearly half the population

India reported new coronavirus infections at an eight-month high on Wednesday and a government scientist warned it will take weeks before data on hospitalisations and deaths will show how severe the latest wave driven by the Omicron variant will be.The federal authorities have said Omicron was causing fewer hospitalisations and deaths than the Delta variant, which killed hundreds of thousands last year.But Tarun Bhatnagar from the ICMR-National Institute of Epidemiology in Chennai said the…

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