Annual deaths from COVID-19 continue to top 30,000 in Japan, even three years since the seriousness of the infectious disease was downgraded to the level of seasonal influenza. Elderly people are most ...

Japan will buy 120 million doses of AstraZeneca Plc's experimental COVID19 vaccine from early next year, its health minister said on Friday, adding that domestic pharmaceutical firms would help in ...

While COVID-19 infections have decreased significantly since Japan downgraded the disease to the same category as seasonal influenza almost three years ago, elderly people and others are still ...

Friday marks three years since Japan downgraded COVID-19 to the same legal category as seasonal influenza. The government is currently overhauling how it communicates during infectious disease ...

Researchers in Japan have released findings showing that COVID-19 after effects, including fatigue, occur when a coronavirus infection activates another virus already inside the body. According to the ...