Japan to keep hospital beds for severely ill; use hotels for mild coronavirus cases japantoday.com

Local municipalities will pay for the hotels rooms, with costs to be funded by a fiscal 2020 supplementary budget, Kyodo news service reported.
Until now Japan has been hospitalizing all coronavirus patients, regardless of whether they are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms.
But beds are already filling up in Tokyo and threaten to elsewhere, experts said this week.
Globally, coronavirus cases surpassed 1 million on Thursday, while deaths have topped 50,000.
Mr Abe, please declare a state of emergency right now!"