Japan on Tuesday reported 185,694 new coronavirus cases, up 114,773 from Monday. Tokyo reported 20,513 new cases, up 12,564 from Monday, and surpassing 20,000 for the first time since Aug 25.
The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo was 37, up five from Monday, health officials said. The nationwide figure was 493, up 17 from Monday.
The number of coronavirus-related deaths reported nationwide was 231.
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21 Comments
Newgirlintown
Golly gosh!
tamanegi
What? But the numbers had been falling? What's the governments policy to curb the virus? Where's Koike?
iraira
No, as has been pointed out to you numerous times by numerous people here, the numbers of cases and deaths have NOT been falling. Over the past week both cases and deaths are both up 22% compared to 2 weeks ago. (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/weekly-trends/#weekly_table)
Elvis is here
People are clearly not following preventive measures properly. To review:
mask up in closed spaces2, get your nth booster
When out on the razz, keep it down, unless 2 meters from other people.
Wash your hands after.All quite simple really. If I forgot something let me know.
Algernon LaCroix
All those masks and jabs are doing a fine job at curbing the spread.
Elvis is here
That's the rub. People ARE'NT masked or jab. You can see the hole in your logic, can't you?
Lindsay
75,000 on Monday and almost triple two days later.
Counting these cases daily is such a waste of time and money.
Good
The more daily cases, the sooner we achieve herd immunity!
iraira
Herd immunity assumes that there will be no evolution of variants that escape protection due to prior infection and recovery from a previous version of the virus. It also assumes that immunity does not wane over time.
With corona you are generally only protected from severe reinfection by a specific variant (or family of closely related variants) for a limited period of time.
Kitchener Leslie
What other countries are still keeping track of this and/or masking?
Algernon LaCroix
More and more people have figured they do more harm than good on balance, so have abandoned them.
Eastmann
today 2 mins earlier than usual.btw did you noticed that these "reports" are getting shorter and there is never source listed for these numbers?
Nihon Tora
They always use to list their source as toyokeizai, but recently that website closed their English language version. So maybe this being an English language publication they stopped including the link?
Derek Grebe
Japan on Tuesday reported 185,694 new coronavirus cases, up 114,773 from Monday
Monday's report was of Sunday's figures. Hospitals are mostly closed on Sundays.
ClippetyClop
Do you think less masking will lead to less / more / exactly the same amount of infections?
Elvis is here
Essential reading. Merry Christmas everyone!!!
https://japantoday.com/category/features/health/as-viral-infections-skyrocket-masks-are-still-a-tried-and-true-way-to-help-keep-yourself-and-others-safe
Sven Asai
Everyone has another recipe to stand those little corona beasts. As for me I just calculate the risks one or two times a week and then just abide to my math results. Currently the stats are as following, based on those officially published numbers: 1 in 4 has been infected so far, 1 in 2359 has died and 1 in 20 is currently infected. So hurry up winning the lottery, because that’s more difficult than to die from corona and avoid crowds or meetings with more than about 20 people. That’s all to it, of course besides the common behavior like disinfecting, wearing a mask among other people, basic immunization with vaccines and such. That in combination worked for me and surely works for anyone else too. Until we catch it then anyway one day sooner or later, because in practice nothing is done, although a successful NoCovid strategy could have been successfully applied right from the beginning. Obviously it’s quite a bit too late now, even the Chinese had to give in, because all the stupid rest didn’t cooperate accordingly.
Elvis is here
So they threw the baby out with the bath water? Or they dropped the ball from the start by not immunising the population properly over the three years of intensive lockdown?
falseflagsteve
Sven
Your analysis is deeply flawed and unscientific. Risk assessment is what is needed not one size fits all mindset. Your fatality numbers if adjusted to age groups would show a stealing difference. The average age of a Covid death is 82 and that person is usually in poor health. The chances of a non obese non senior dying of the current variants is incredibly, for children so low they wouldn’t even show up on a graph.
Assessing possible damage due to constant vaccines also should be made as would hiding away and masking up to make sure you catch non illnesses. The immune system needs to be used or I severely comprised.
Jtsnose
Time to remember to avoid the 3 Cs, (closed spaces, crowded places, and close-contact settings),
the significance of wearing a mask is also shown at the bottom of the following web link,
https://www.japan.go.jp/kizuna/2020/avoiding_the_three_cs.html