Japan's death toll from the coronavirus pandemic topped 10,000 on Monday, with the tally being 10,025 as of 6 p.m. The figure was a sharp increase from March 26 when the death toll passed 9,000.
The Tokyo metropolitan government reported 425 new coronavirus cases from 5,594 tests on Monday, down 210 from Sunday. Osaka's count dropped by 1,000 for the first time in a week to 924.
In Tokyo, people in their 20s (117 cases) and their 30s (90) accounted for the highest numbers, while 62 cases were aged 60 and over.
The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo is 55, up five from Sunday, health officials said. The nationwide figure is 898, up 34 from Sunday.
Nationwide, the number of reported cases was 3,318. After Osaka and Tokyo, the prefectures with the most cases were Hyogo (310), Aichi (161), Kanagawa (160), Fukuoka (154), Hokkaido (139), Kyoto (119), Saitama (109), Nara (56), Kumamoto (52), Okinawa (44), Okayama (38) and Ibaraki (35).
The number of coronavirus-related deaths reported nationwide was 35.
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ZENJI
80% of the population say, Stop The Games.
10,000 have died Nationally.
How many more will die if this Super Spreader Event is allowed to proceed?
Starbucks
@ Christopher Glenn
I am a betting man and if I went to a bookie with your question I'd get 100 to 1. You can't seriously believe what you are saying.
Jind
Not surprising the Tokyo numbers are low as only 5,594 were tested in a metro Tokyo population of 34 million.
Olympics and money rules over public safety.
Bill Adams
So that's the equivalent of fewer than 0.5 deaths a day in each of Japan's large cities - with no deaths anywhere else. And some people think this is a cause of concern! Get a grip.
Christopher Glen
And how many from suicide, caused by the government response to Covid? I’m not a betting man but I believe that will be in the end, greater than that of the virus.
Wolfpack
If there were mass graves I might be willing to question the official numbers. Japan isn’t New York!
daito_hak
Putting up an absolute number like that without putting it in perspective means nothing. It’s meaningless. This is just media frenzy and to be honest quit dishonest.
One can use many other data for comparison, but here are the stats for the number of deaths in Japan caused by pneumonia between 2009 and 2018.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1074856/japan-number-pneumonia-deaths/
It reads by itself. I don’t need to add any further comment.
serendipitous1
So that's about 1,000 new deaths in the past month (or 33 per day). Much better than 1,000 or 2,000 deaths a day but still not good if the numbers are going in the wrong direction.
moonbloom
You believe the numbers?
noriahojanen
According to a Nikkei's report on the covid deaths by different age bracket (whose numbers originate from Japan's Heath Ministry), those in their 70-80s and older constitute 90 % of the total death toll. No teenager has died while youngers seems too small in number to address in percentage for the pie chart.
80 yos+: 65.0 (%)
70 yos: 23.6
60 yos:7.4
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUA261J10W1A420C2000000/
Meanwhile the 2020 excess deaths decreased. Though variants could still change the course, Japan has so far saved many lives under the virus threat.
bokuda
it took us a year and lots of international organizations' statements to finally agree that Japan is undertesting and vaccines go far too slow.
How much will it take for us to agree that Covid deaths are mostly hidden under other symptoms?!
kaimycahl
@japantrojan
I often have the same thought about keeping things in perspective when I read the comments on this site on this topic.
Seems like many commentators believe the sky is falling and act as though Japan is one of the worst hit places as opposed to being well below the global averages for deaths per 1 million and cases per 1 million.
I disagree it seems like many commentators here live in the real world and they see what is going on outside of their bubble in Japan. You said Japan is well below the global averages for deaths per 1 million and cases per 1 million. WORST CASE one death is one too many, people here posting are looking at reality. It is what is it and people are dying.
GW
My money is on the 10,000 mark being reached much earlier than today.....what a sick joke this all is
TARA TAN KITAOKA
MMMMMMMM, why are people still not feeling worried???
drlucifer
Just as expected number of tests already in free fall nationwide from day one of the SOE,
Zaphod
"Death toll" is a meaningless label unless there is a breakdown of who died. Otherwise healthy people with no comorbidities, who were not close to death to start with? Where we have breakdowns, we do not see that.
japantrojan
I often have the same thought about keeping things in perspective when I read the comments on this site on this topic.
Seems like many commentators believe the sky is falling and act as though Japan is one of the worst hit places as opposed to being well below the global averages for deaths per 1 million and cases per 1 million.
obladi
Blood on your hands Suga-san. You could have done much better. In fact it would have been hard to have done much worse.
Starbucks
I see the propaganda machine is back in all its glory. Remarkable work Suga & co.
robert maes
Nr of tests 1500 ?
thelonius
No. Up 20 from last Monday.
gakinotsukai
Because Japan has the fastest incubation period of the world and you see the SOE results in 48 hours top ?
gakinotsukai
tests number is still a secret ....
NipponGlory
another day of decrease trend. combine with new State of emergency i firmly believe we have peaked and will decreae further tomorrow too
Derek Grebe
Woo, this state of mergency must be super-powerful. Figures already tumbling downwards less than one business day in.
Great work, Suga-san! Let's Heartful Olympic!
These people think we are stupid.