Tokyo reports 1,410 new coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 3,886

“I will stand at the frontline of the battle while I get the people’s cooperation.”

Suga pledged to achieve the Olympics as “a proof of human victory against the coronavirus.”

Oops?

Most of the young people won't even know they have it.

Then how come they're showing up in the testing? You need to be showing pretty strong symptoms to be sent for a test.

Zoroto

She is probably busy getting her outfit ready and getting her hair done for the opening ceremony. She’s gotta look good as the world will be watching.

Shinkansen,

I think it’s the infrastructure that is lacking which (to me anyway) is even more infuriating. The government had well over a year to get ready and they don’t have a system set up to rapidly vaccinate the general public.

Now, finally show a little mercy and cancel those games.

We are so far beyond the point of cancelling the Big Undokai I'm afraid. It has simply become a case study in human greed and incompetence.

It isn't the end of the world.

Is that how bad a situation needs to become for you to acknowledge it as being a problem? What about for people for who it will be the end of the world? Or are non-you people unimportant?

＠AshleyShiba

I know your intentions are good, but you make it sound like you have some inside intelligence that no one else has. But, your doctor and kuakusho friends are only telling you what the average person can reasonably foresee for themselves. There are plenty of posters here making the same calls. They don't need a doctor or local official to tell them.

all this for something I’m 95% not sure to catch

I'm not going to weigh into the vaccine debate here... but I'm 95% sure you're underestimating your chances of catching the virus.

Now, finally show a little mercy and cancel those games. How can you still insist in continuing with those numbers and rising cases within the athletes and the Olympic village too? Are you crazy, obsessed, Satan in person, or altogether? Stop it now, damned!

the more people get infected, the more likely a variant that resist to the current vaccine will appear.

-As long as you believe this. It surely has not been proven. Let's look at what we know.

Yes, let's look at what we know.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/a-new-strain-of-coronavirus-what-you-should-know

As long as the coronavirus spreads through the population, mutations will continue to happen.

The more people who are infected, the more chances there are for a mutation to occur.

The vaccines are proving to be effective against Covid.

Pity then that Japan is slowing down the pace of vaccinations. And that there appear to not be enough to go around.

That's the highest daily total since mid-January.

Cue John Williams's "Olympics Fanfare."

It’s easy math. Would need 280,000 cases to even get to 5%.

That's the thing with math. Any dummy can use a calculator, but not everyone knows what to put into it.

I'll help you out a little. Stop trying to calculate your odds of catching the virus by using a single day's infection count.

Of note, 15 people arriving into Japan tested positive at the airports today as well.

Wonder how many were Olympic related?

Cancel the Olympics, save lives.

Is there really a shortage of vaccines?

Fasten your seatbelts it's only going to get worse, and the sadist thing about it is this government had 6 months to get ready and be able to keep these numbers at minimum but I really doubt it.

There really is no way to spin this. It’s bad. Very bad. And when Japan’s notoriously brittle health care system hits the breaking point, people will be dying in their homes because there won’t be a place to treat them.

6 months? More like a year. Total clowns

It is time for Japan to act responsibly in the face of the current shortage of vaccines and increasing Delta cases. We can't wait for more trials when evidence of Ivermectin working fairly well as a prophylactic is right there under our noses. This medicine "Made In Japan" could save us from another very problematic wave. We have nothing to lose, start distribution of at home kits like what they did in other countries.

TARA TAN KITAOKAToday  07:07 am JST

Cancel the Olympics, save lives.

Tokyo is the largest city in the world, over 35 million people living there. 1410 new cases of people getting sick is 3000 too many. I don't care what anybody says.

Call the Games off NOW.

like only 2281 people hospitalized out of 14 million preventable? (0.0016%)

I am happy to see another person who was not sleeping at school.

FYI:

16th Feb 2021 = 101 deaths

16th Mar 2021 = 57 deaths

16th Apr 2021 = 46 deaths

16th May 2021 = 47 deaths

16th Jun 2021 = 80 deaths

16th Jul 2021 = 10 deaths

You read it right first time. 10 deaths.

Is it “preventable”? I heard you can still get it even if you are vaccinated, no?

Oh boy! Here they go! The Covid cases are rapidly increasing to an out of control pandemic. People have got to stay home! Everybody!

1400 cases. 14 million population. What percentage is that? It’s easy math. Would need 280,000 cases to even get to 5%. But to each his own.

olympics are going on still. It’s “safe” they promised, right?

I used almost the highest daily number this year. Would you prefer I use a lower one?

my chance of catching it today is based on today’s conditions. Which appears to be around 0.001% in Tokyo.

Stop trying to calculate your odds of catching the virus by using a single day's infection count.

“Almost” completely preventable?

like only 2281 people hospitalized out of 14 million preventable? (0.0016%)

There really is no way to spin this. It’s bad. Very bad. 

No it is not ! 80% of the 65+ are vaccinated . It is not that bad, it is medium bad.

Choice of each persons.

When the vaccine meant you can’t get corona and didn’t have to wear a mask anymore and we could go back to normal life- it might have been worth it to me.

then it was well you can still get corona it just won’t be as bad. So wear a mask still anyway.

then it was oh by the way you can die from the vaccine. and we don’t have the data on long term side effects yet.

all this for something I’m 95% not sure to catch and 99% sure to be ok in 1-2 weeks? No thanks, for me. Do what you like though.

@N.M. Even if COVID is less severe on a younger population, the more people get infected, the more likely a variant that resist to the current vaccine will appear. And which point, all the progress to protect the people at risk (e.g. the elderly) will be for naught.

As long as you believe this. It surely has not been proven. Let's look at what we know.

@Pim : small day-to-day increases...really??? As I said, compared to earlier in the year and you will see significant drops in serious cases and deaths. This is all due to vaccinations and the fact it is mainly the young who are infected now.

Just 59 people with severe symptoms out of the population of 12 million. What are they making all the fuss about? Even if you get infected, if you don’t develop the symptoms you’re in good shape.

Similar to taking an unapproved vaccine? One that we don’t know what happens later from it?

but at what cost to their long term health?

GdTokyoToday  06:22 pm JST

There really is no way to spin this. It’s bad. Very bad. And when Japan’s notoriously brittle health care system hits the breaking point, people will be dying in their homes because there won’t be a place to treat them.

To treat who? The elderly are well on their way to be protected. People under 50 (which is 70%+ of the cases) statistically don't end up in the hospital, or worse off dead. Be thankful things are getting better.

Please read my comments from last week to present. My words, unfortunately, we’re spot on. My doctor friend told me last Friday there would be a thousand cases a day. Unofficially, he said the cases are much higher. My friend wo works in the kuakusho said there will be 2000 cases a day after the Olympics.

You can bet there are already more than 2000 in Tokyo but that has no meaning when the majority are connected to young, healthy adults and children. The worst is behind us as the elderly are getting protected quickly. Most of the elderly (over 50%) are FULLY vaccinated and over 70% have had at least one shot. I don't think personal or anecdotal predictions add to the situation. It is best to look at the numbers we know.

71.7% under 50 years old. This rate keeps climbing. It means that the elderly are MUCH more protected than in earlier in the year. This is proven by the reduced number of deaths and serious cases.

The likelihood of an under-50 year old succumbing to Corona is statistically low, especially if they have taken care of themselves. Most of the young people won't even know they have it.

Things are getting better despite the "scary" 4 digit number in a population of over 12M people.

It isn't the end of the world. Nothing is shut down and we should be thankful for that.