() Coronavirus live: Japan and Taiwan report Omicron surges; Ireland lifts restrictions


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Tokyo reports fourth day of record infections; Taiwan to tighten restrictions after 60 Covid cases at Taoyuan factory * See all our coronavirus coverage Taiwan’s government said on Saturday restrictions would be tightened after a rare surge in domestic transmission of the Omicron variant, saying it needed to act now to prevent being overwhelmed, even though overall numbers remain quite low. After months of no or few community infections, Taiwan has seen a small rise in local Covid-19 cases since the beginning of January, mainly linked to workers at the main international airport in the northern city ofTaoyuan who were...