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The government is struggling to balance the reopening of the economy and keeping the spread of the virus in-check and for now, they appear to be fighting a losing battle.
As with today’s provisional count of 1,044 new cases (not all prefectures have finished reporting), there are ~13,600 active cases in the country. For some context, the peak back in April was ~10,200 active cases (it went as low as ~680 active cases in June).