Japan's second-largest city of Osaka’s hospitals' are buckling under a huge wave of new coronavirus infections, running out of beds and ventilators as exhausted doctors warn of a "system collapse”. Munia Iffat reports.

• Due to a huge wave of new coronavirus infections, Japan’s Osaka city’s hospitals are running out of beds and ventilators. Doctors warn of a system collapse and advice against holding the Olympics this summer.
• Japan’s western region home to 9 million people is suffering the brunt of the fourth wave of the pandemic, accounting for a third of the nation’s death number in May, although it constitutes just 7% of its population.
• Though in previous Japan has avoided the large infections suffered by other nations, the fourth pandemic wave took Osaka prefecture by storm, with 3,849 new positive tests in the week to Thursday.
• Yuji Tohda, the director of Kindai University Hospital in Osaka told, "Simply put, this is a collapse of the medical system.  The highly infectious British variant and slipping alertness have led to the present explosive growth within the number of patients."

Yasunori Komatsu, who heads a union of regional government employees said, “In the Olympics, 70,000 or 80,000 athletes and the people will come to this country from around the world. This may be a trigger for an additional disaster within the summer.”