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Japan on Wednesday reported 43,555 new coronavirus cases, up 1,261 from Tuesday. Tokyo reported 4,204 new cases, down nine from Tuesday.
The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo is nine, unchanged from Tuesday, health officials said. The nationwide number is 125, up nine from Tuesday.
The number of coronavirus-related deaths reported nationwide was 68.
© Japan Today
10 Comments
Jay
How many of those 68 deaths are attributed to "of" Covid and not "with". Apparently, it’s OK for the government to conflate cases admitted to hospital with COVID and cases admitted because of COVID to “prove” how devastating COVID is.
Case in point, you break a leg, go to the hospital and get tested, you test positive for COVID but didn’t know you had it.
= you were hospitalized due to COVID.
You develop acute sepsis/go to ICU
= you are now in ICU due to COVID.
You pass away from sepsis
= you are now classified as a COVID death.
Misrepresentation, cherry picking, making claims without a valid reference source or citation and spinning the narrative are all used by the authorities. How hard is it to wake up and just move on?
painkiller
Japan reports 43,555 new coronavirus cases
Giant numbers. And will continue to rise, as infections are in an upward trend.
Huge positivity rate in this highly vaccinated country.
aneb
Yes, because we all know the government is going to make the situation look worse than it is on purpose. Obviously, they are not going to do the complete opposite of that. /s
kurisupisu
When people get crammed in on public transport so tight that moving is impossible then cases are sure to go up…
Seigi
It's very positive news because lots of positive! Close the border Japan before it's too late!
genshijin
Singapore is seeing a huge increase - also a highly vaccinated country. XBB strain is beginning a rapid take over.
Hervé L'Eisa
It would be interesting to see the percentage of the infected who are double & triple vaccinated.