Japan cabinet approval rating falls to 50% in poll

Bloomberg

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga saw his cabinet’s approval rating fall more than 12 percentage points from the previous month as his government struggled to handle another wave of coronavirus infections, according to a Kyodo poll.
Support for Suga’s cabinet fell to 50.3% from 63% the previous month, according to the survey conducted between December 5 and 6 and published on Sunday. The disapproval rating rose 13.6 points to 32.8%, according to Kyodo.
About 56% of respondents said the government’s handling of
the coronavirus is unfavourable, with almost half saying the “Go To Travel” subsidy campaign should be suspended, it said. Japan is facing another wave of coronavirus cases as it heads into winter, with the number of serious infections rising in cities such as Tokyo.