Japan reports 59,885 new coronavirus cases

Perhaps the 8th wave is nearing the end of it's cycle. Well done Japan.

It's been "nearing the end of it's cycle" since November.

Vaccines and masks working so well…excepts 4 weeks ago and 4 months ago BUT now the falling numbers are due to the masks and the vaccines not the simple fact that natural immunity to the current strain has started to take effect!

Perhaps the 8th wave is nearing the end of it's cycle. Well done Japan.

Roy SophveasonToday  05:48 pm JST

Japantimes 12 January: "On Wednesday, Japan confirmed 520 new COVID-19 deaths

That's a strange one indeed, it was briefly reported (also on JT) and then corrected on most news sites to be 381 (the number also shown in the MLHW reports). Fluke in data collection? One can only speculate.

This one's probably not an antivaxer.

Can't be sure of course.

(Sorry for dragging you into this but I felt compelled to make another guess in the interest of fairness)

Numbers number numbers....

Infections down a lot, while deaths stay high.

There tends to be a delay (about 2 weeks?) between infection rate and death rate, so deaths should come down soon.

And it also depends on how they define "coronavirus-related deaths"...

Infections down a lot, while deaths stay high. Not a good sign. Fewer infected people would mean that the deaths by other causes would be less likely to be infected as well, thus fewer deaths with COVID.

The number of coronavirus-related deaths reported nationwide was 410.

Does anyone know what the highest number of deaths in one 1 day is?