Japan’s prime minister said on Sunday that he would consider downgrading the classification of COVID-19, which would result in the disease being treated more like a seasonal flu-like condition.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus—commonly known as the novel coronavirus—is currently classified in Japan as Category Two disease—the second-highest on a five-tier scale of severity of infectious diseases, as the country faces its seventh wave of infections.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters that any changes to the CCP virus classification would occur once the situation had stabilized.
“I don’t intend to reclassify [the virus] now when infections are spreading,” Kishida was quoted as saying by local media….