The Japanese stock market slipped today amid rising Covid-19 cases after witnessing a good recovery in last session. The stocks had soared with benchmark Nikkei 225 index jumping more than 2% on good bargain buying at near six week low. Some selling emerged in the index leading counters today on lack of cues from Wall Street overnight and the rapid spread of the coronavirus omicron variant. Japan has reported more than 20,000 new daily cases for the fourth straight day. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Index closed down 0.27% at 28257 today, giving up bulk of the gains in second half of the session after hitting above 28600 mark.
