Coronavirus outbreak updates: April 10, 2020

Here are the latest updates from Japan and beyond on the coronavirus outbreak:

(Tokyo)

As of 11 p.m., Friday, April 10 (Japan time)

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List of shops closed in Tokyo following emergency declaration

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As of 11 p.m., Thursday, April 9 (Japan time)

• The number of people traveling to the normally bustling central Tokyo area was about 60 percent lower than usual on Wednesday morning, a day after a state of emergency for the capital and six other prefectures was declared to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, data analyzed by an information technology firm showed.
• Japan’s economy in the April-June period is projected to shrink an annualized real 11.08 percent from the previous quarter, marking the third consecutive quarter of contraction and the largest drop in over 11 years due to the coronavirus pandemic.
• The International Monetary Fund said Thursday it expects the coronavirus pandemic to bring about the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression.
• China has temporarily closed all land border crossings with Russia as it confirmed a growing number of coronavirus cases imported by people arriving from its northern neighbor.
• More than 180 new coronavirus cases were confirmed in Tokyo on Thursday, a record daily increase, a metropolitan government official said.
• The Tokyo metropolitan government is arranging to allow barbers and do-it-yourself stores to operate as usual, a source familiar with the plan said Thursday, as the capital, under a state of emergency, seeks to narrow down its list of business suspensions.
• As the new coronavirus continues to spread in Japan, recovered patients, their families, co-workers and neighbors are facing stigma and discriminatory treatment, a recurrent theme seen in society when people have been faced with new health threats, such as leprosy and the effects of nuclear accidents.
• A man was arrested in Tokyo on Wednesday for allegedly breaking an entrance door at a sports club that remained open despite the state of emergency declared due to the new coronavirus outbreak, police said.