"In accordance with the law on special measures against the new coronavirus, an emergency regime will be introduced in the metropolitan area," TASS quoted Yasutoshi Nishimura, head of the government's infection control headquarters, during a report to parliament.
The day before in Japan, more than 6 thousand cases of COVID-19 were detected for the first time.
At the end of December, a new strain of coronavirus identified in Britain was discovered in Japan.