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TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is fighting an uphill battle to win the public's compliance with Covid-19 measures, even as an expert panel said on Thursday (Aug 12) that the spiralling infections in Tokyo were nearly beyond containment. "Infections are rampant to the point of being uncontrollable," said Dr Norio Ohmagari, director of the Disease Control and Prevention Centre and adviser to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. "The public health system is in a serious state of dysfunction." Dr Shigeru Omi, a former World Health Organisation official who leads the central government's expert panel, said the flow of people...
