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KYODO NEWS - 3 hours ago - 22:14 | All, Coronavirus, JapanThe Japan Medical Association said Wednesday that a medical support nonprofit organization will set up a multilingual hotline to help foreigners in Japan for inquiries regarding the new coronavirus.
The AMDA Medical Information Center will operate the service in eight languages between 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Friday to May 20.
The association will give financial assistance to the information center, which provides medical support for non-Japanese speakers, a JMA official said.
Since January, phone calls to the center have surged for inquiries regarding the coronavirus, the JMA official said.
The ministry asks foreigners to call their prefectural governments as they ought to have a consultation call center.