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Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announces end to virus state of emergency

Japan’s government says the coronavirus state of emergency will end Thursday so the economy can be reactivated as infections slow. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced Tuesday that virus restrictions will be eased gradually.

With the lifting, Japan will be entirely free of emergency requirements for the first time in more than six months.

Japan’s current state of emergency, declared in April, was repeatedly extended and expanded. Despite public weariness and frustration over the measures, Japan has managed to avoid the more restrictive lockdowns imposed elsewhere while recording about 1.69 million cases and 17,500 deaths from Covid-19.

Source: hindustantimes

In other news – Dineo Ranaka becomes a sangoma

Metro FM DJ and reality TV star Dineo Ranaka has opened up about accepting and embracing her ancestral calling to become a traditional healer – 17 years after she first found out she was gifted.

Dineo Ranaka

Dineo revealed, in an exclusive interview with a local publication that it took her a while to accept the fact that she was called and bring herself to begin the process of learning. Learn more