Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has established a task force under the country's revised emergency law to deal with the global rise in coronavirus infections and deaths.
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It is necessary for people to act as one to overcome what can be described as a national crisis, Abe said in Tokyo on Thursday.
Japan will ban entry from 21 European countries as well as Iran, to take effect from March 27, Abe said.
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