TOKYO – Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thurday committed to donate a total of US$300 million to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance to both support its COVID-19 response as well as its work immunizing children in developing nations.

TOKYO – Japan has surpassed its target to increase COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing capacity to 20,000 a day.

TOKYO – The Japanese Health Ministry on Tuesday approved the use of saliva to conduct polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for the detection of COVID-19 infections.

MANILA/TOKYO – A total of 160 Filipinos who were stranded in Japan amid the new coronavirus outbreak has returned home to the Philippines through the efforts of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Philippine Embassy in Tokyo and the Philippine Consulates-General in Osaka and Nagoya.