On Okinawa in southern Japan, 12,260 cases of covid-19 were registered during a week at the end of June, Japan News reports. 

”If the infection spreads throughout the country, there is a risk that the country's healthcare system will be strained,” a member of an advisory body to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said at a meeting on Friday.

The large number of infected people has also made it difficult to staff hospitals and maintain the normal operation of healthcare.

”The increase in the number of patients admitted to hospitals and an increase in cluster infections in hospitals have exacerbated the burden on medical services,” said a member of the ministry’s advisory body.

The hospital in the city of Nago describes the situation as the "most difficult ever.".

Source: Aftonbladet.se