(AP Photo/Hiro Komae)TOKYO – Japan’s coronavirus cases have topped 100,000, nine months after the first case was found in mid-January, the health ministry said Friday.
According to health ministry data, nearly half of the new patients were in their 20s and 30s.
In other developments in the Asia-Pacific region:— Customs agents in the southern Chinese city of Hong Kong have seized 100,000 counterfeit face masks and arrested one person.
— India reported 48,648 new coronavirus cases, continuing a monthlong slowing trend in infections even as the country adds to its 8 million cases.
The Health Ministry also reported 563 more fatalities in the past 24 hours, raising the confirmed death toll to 121,090.