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Tokyo lifted all restrictions on businesses on Friday amid signs that the coronavirus pandemic is waning in the Japanese capital, although concerns remain over a potential second wave of infections.
People in Japan will no longer be asked to refrain from crossing prefectural borders as the central government also lifted the restriction in the hope of giving a boost to the country’s economic activities that had been slowed by the pandemic.
The metropolitan government withdrew its temporary closure request on live music venues, nightclubs and similar entertainment establishments where people come into close contact in enclosed spaces, exiting the last phase of its three-step restriction easing process.
Most other businesses had already begun operating under previous steps.

Eateries were allowed to return to business as normal with the lifting of the government request that they shorten opening hours.
Restrictions were eased despite the capital still recording double-digit daily new infections, with more than 90 people in total returning positive coronavirus tests from Monday to Wednesday.
On Monday alone, Tokyo logged 48 new coronavirus infections, marking the largest daily tally since May 5. It also reported 41 new cases on Thursday.
Infections spread in Tokyo from late March, with the daily new case total eclipsing 200 in mid-April. While the figures fell in May, there was a spike after the state of emergency was lifted on May 25.
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Earlier in the week, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said the recent increases in the daily total reflected efforts to track infection routes and the better cooperation from the nightlife industry in testing. She maintained the increase does not indicate worsening levels of community transmission.
Tokyo, with a population of about 14 million, laid out a three-step plan to ease virus restrictions by setting numerical infection milestones, with museums and schools reopened in the first phase, following the lifting in late May of a state of emergency.
In the second phase of easing from June 1, sports facilities and theatres reopened, and in the third phase from June 12, pachinko parlours and karaoke venues were permitted to resume operating.


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Restrictions were eased despite the capital still recording double-digit daily new infections
Infections spread in Tokyo from late March, with the daily new case total eclipsing 200 in mid-April



Restrictions were eased despite the capital still recording double-digit daily new infections.


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Tokyo lifts all coronavirus restrictions on businesses, seeking to spur economy

Restrictions were eased despite the capital still recording double-digit daily new infections Infections spread in Tokyo from late March, with the daily new case total eclipsing 200 in mid-April

Restrictions were eased despite the capital still recording double-digit daily new infections

Infections spread in Tokyo from late March, with the daily new case total eclipsing 200 in mid-April