Japan on Wednesday reported 41,584 new coronavirus cases, up 146 from Tuesday. Tokyo reported 2,612 new cases, down 519 from Tuesday.
The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo was 35, down six from Tuesday, health officials said. The nationwide figure was 398, down 12 from Tuesday.
The number of coronavirus-related deaths reported nationwide was 200.
© Japan Today
15 Comments
RKL
Highest rate in the world.
Elvis is here
Yeah. Must be the masks and vaccines causing it.
Fredrik
Japan used to be world no. 1 (weekly infections, rolling average), but US is currently no. 1. Japan is a close no. 2. (In realty, China is most likely world no. 1, but they don't report their numbers.)
iraira
Japan is (unfortunately) still number 1 for cases and deaths in the past week.
No argument regarding the lack of transparency for Chinese cases.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/weekly-trends/#weekly_table
Sven Asai
That’s correct. They had their big waves and high death tolls and now it’s swapping over here, unavoidable but somehow postponed due to volunteer measures like masking and social distance and of course some geographic reasons.
Gaijinjland
Great. Pretty sure I had Covid last week after returning from abroad. Not going to say anything about lack of masks overseas. Felt mildly ill on the plane back to Tokyo, told the quarantine officer at Narita I felt great, didn’t bother going to the hospital because I had work, next day felt slightly worse, a week later I feel fine. I’m only speculating because I didn’t bother to get tested but hope I didn’t infect anyone if I was positive. But I totally get how this thing spreads because if most people are like me, they’re like ok, I don’t feel great but it’s not that bad, screw it, I got deadlines to meet.
William77
Roy SophveasonToday 05:44 pm JST
Absolutely false,Japan on purpose for the first 6-8 months of the pandemic had nearly no test unlike most European countries and they made a single Covid test almost impossible.
So even the numbers in Japan are not credible,at least at the beginning of the pandemic due to Abe decisions to portray Japan as an “example” to the world.
jeancolmar
Thank you Gaijinland for giving us one plausible suggestion of why COVID is still hang around in spite of masks and vaccinations.
falseflagsteve
Good low numbers as we enjoy completely normal life apart from most wearing masks for some reason and the childish plastic partitions in some eateries from owners who don’t follow the science.
Plenty of tourists about round my manor, few too many for my liking actually, many are too loud and don’t know how to form orderly queues. Least the local businesses are doing well again.
commanteer
Perfectly implausible but probable that some puffed-up J-expert would propagate such blithering balderdash.
Hideomi Kuze
One of aims that LDP Kishida regime will downgrade Covid19 unscientifically is discontinuance such daily announcement about Covid19 cases and deaths to pretend as if Covid19 vanished.