Here are the latest updates from Japan and beyond on the coronavirus outbreak:

Photo taken Oct. 27, 2020, shows Japan Airlines Co. planes parked at Tokyo's Haneda airport. The company expects a net loss of between 240 billion yen ($2.3 billion) and 270 billion yen for the fiscal year ending March 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

As of 11 p.m., Friday, Oct. 30

• The capacity of novel coronavirus testing in Tokyo will be increased to about 65,000 per day by early December, Gov. Yuriko Koike said Friday.
  
  
• Japan will lift its entry ban on foreign travelers from China, South Korea, six other countries and Taiwan from Nov. 1, government officials said Friday, as it gradually eases COVID-19 travel restrictions in a bid to revive its battered economy.
  
  
• Japan Airlines Co. said Friday it expects to post a net loss of between 240 billion yen ($2.3 billion) and 270 billion yen in the current business year through March, the first red ink since its relisting in 2012, as the coronavirus pandemic sharply reduced demand for air travel.
  
  
• Essential workers in Japan's health care and transportation sectors were increasingly required to work excessive hours during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a government study released Friday.
  
  
• The Japanese government on Friday asked local authorities and business lobbies to give workers more time off during the upcoming New Year holiday, when many people visit relatives or go on vacation, to mitigate crowding and thus reduce the risk of spreading the novel coronavirus.
  
  
• Japan lowered Friday travel advisories issued for eight countries, including China and South Korea, plus Taiwan, as the pace of new coronavirus infections is slowing, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said.
  
  
• Japan's job availability fell to its lowest level in almost seven years in September, with many returning to the labor market following a gradual resumption of economic activity that had been slowed by the coronavirus pandemic, government data showed Friday.

As of 11 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 29

• The U.S. economy expanded a record annualized rate of 33.1 percent in real terms in the July-September quarter, bouncing back from a historic 31.4 percent decline in the preceding quarter amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Commerce Department said Thursday.
  
  
• China's Communist Party expects the nation's gross domestic product to exceed 100 trillion yuan ($14.9 trillion) in 2020 despite the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to a communique of its four-day key gathering through Thursday, carried by state-run media.
  
  
• Tokyo Disney Resort operator Oriental Land Co. said Thursday it expects a net loss of 51.11 billion yen ($490 million) in the fiscal year through next March due to the coronavirus pandemic.
  
  
• Japan reached 100,000 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus on Thursday amid a recent uptick in the number of new infections.
  
  
• France and Germany on Wednesday announced the imposition of fresh national lockdown measures as Europe grapples with a massive resurgence of coronavirus cases.
  
  
• Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. said Thursday it will supply 50 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine developed by U.S. drugmaker Moderna Inc. in Japan from the first half of next year.
  
  
• India said Thursday its coronavirus cases have surpassed the 8 million mark, adding over a million cases in the past 18 days alone.

Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - October 24~30

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People walk in Osaka's Dotonbori commercial district on Oct. 29, 2020, while wearing face masks amid unabated coronavirus infections. Japan's cumulative total of confirmed novel coronavirus cases topped 100,000 the same day, amid a recent uptick in the number of new infections coinciding with a resumption in economic activity. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

 

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