TOKYO: Osaka prefectural governor Hirofumi Yoshimura said on Thursday (Apr 1) the Olympic torch relay in the city of Osaka should be cancelled amid a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases. Yoshimura had sounded the alarm the previous day that a jump in new coronavirus cases in Osaka was raising fears the western Japanese metropolis was entering a fresh wave of infections that could become its worst yet. The prefecture, which had just emerged from a COVID-19 state of emergency a month ago, reported