(くすり)

medicine

(たりる)

to be enough; to be sufficient

(じょうたい)

state, condition

(つづく)

to continue

(にほん)

Japan

(やっきょく)

pharmacy

(びょういん)

hospital

(とくに)

especially / particularly

(かぜ)

a cold (illness)

(せき)

cough

(てにはいる)

to be obtained, to come into one's hands

(もんだい)

problem

(すうねんまえ)

several years ago

(おきる)

to happen, occur

(げんいん)

cause / reason

(ひとつ)

one (thing)

(つくる)

to make

(かいしゃ)

company

(こうじょう)

factory

(とまる)

to stop

(きめる)

to decide

(くに)

country; the government

(けんさ)

inspection, test, examination

(せいさん)

Production; manufacturing

(ご)

after, later

(ほか)

other

(ちゅうもん)

order (for goods)

(あつまる)

to gather; to come together

(おいつく)

to catch up

(ぞうさん)

increased production

(たのむ)

to request / ask

(いしゃ)

doctor

(そうだん)

consultation; discussion

(べつ)

another; different

(かえる)

to change

(せんもんか)

expert, specialist

(もとにもどる)

to return to how it was, to go back to normal

(まだ)

still; yet

(じかん)

time

(はなす)

to speak, talk

negative form: does not ~, will not ~

The plain negative 出ない in the headline and the polite negative 出ません in the article both say that Ohtani will not appear in the game.

is doing, has been doing (ongoing state/action)

Expresses a continuing action or resulting state. Formed with て-form + いる. Can describe an action in progress or a state resulting from a past change.

to become hard to do ~

ます-stem + にくい means 'hard to do', and くなる turns it into a change over time. 手に入りにくくなっています says the medicine has gradually become hard to get hold of.

nominalizer (the act of ~)

Turns verbs into nouns — changing one's awareness (意識を変えること), not over-buying (買いすぎないこと), and using leftovers well (使うこと).

to be done (passive form)

Ru-verbs take られる to form the passive. 決められた位置 means "a position that has been decided (in advance)" — the article never says who decided it, which is typical of news writing.

just as / in the way that

Indicates doing something exactly as stated or instructed.

has not ~ / is not ~ing

Negative te-iru form expressing that an action has not taken place or a state doesn't exist. Rain has not fallen.

causative (make/let do)

Causative form. 自由にさせる means 'to let (them) be free'.

to become no longer / to disappear

Indicates a change where something ceases to exist or can no longer be done. Here it describes that prayer gatherings can no longer be held in Hong Kong.

there are cases/times when ～

Describes a possibility or occasional occurrence.

probably ~ / will likely ~

Expresses conjecture or probability. Iran's president suggests America will probably also suffer.

薬が足りない状態が続いている

The shortage of medicine is continuing

日本の薬局や病院で、薬が足りない状態が続いています。

At pharmacies and hospitals in Japan, a shortage of medicine is continuing.

特に、かぜやせきの薬が手に入りにくくなっています。

Cold and cough medicines in particular have become hard to obtain.

この問題は数年前から起きています。

This problem has been going on since several years ago.

原因の一つは、薬を作る会社の工場が止まったことです。

One of the causes is that factories belonging to drug makers stopped operating.

決められた通りに作っていなかった会社があり、国が検査をして、生産をやめさせました。

Some companies had not been manufacturing as the rules required, so the government inspected them and made them halt production.

その後、ほかの会社に注文が集まり、生産が追いつかなくなりました。

After that, orders piled up at the other companies, and production could no longer keep up.

国は、会社に増産を頼んでいます。

The government is asking companies to increase production.

薬局では、医者に相談して別の薬に変えることもあります。

At pharmacies, they sometimes consult the doctor and switch the patient to a different medicine.

専門家は「元に戻るまで、まだ時間がかかるだろう」と話しています。

An expert says, "It will probably still take time before things return to normal."