Japan's daily COVID cases top 150,000, new record high

Japan's daily COVID cases top 150,000, new record high: Tokyo confirmed 20,401 new COVID-19 cases on July 20, topping 20,000 for the first time since early February, the metropolitan government said, as the country grapples with a seventh wave of coronavirus infections spurred by the highly transmissible BA.5 Omicron subvariant.