Japan's health ministry and native governments said Monday the total number of people infected with the COVID-19 virus in Japan stood at 1,119 as of 8:30 pm native time here. Of the 1,119 confirmed COVID-19 instances in Japan, the majority are in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, which has confirmed 162 instances. The United States has also warned its citizens to keep away from non-essential travel to Japan, with the Centers for Disease Management and Prevention there setting its COVID-19 warning at its highest stage for Japan, warning of "widespread ongoing transmission". globberstemes.com , for its part, has raised its warning level by one point because of the spread of the virus in the United States, with the international ministry urging folks here to avoid all non-essential travel to the United States.