Tokyo reports 1,494 new coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 6,081

Hi I@n,

As reported on this sight a day or two ago.

''Also, 188 cases were younger than 20 (56 younger than 10), health officials said.''

I took notice because I have friends who work in education, with children under 12.

If there is any doubt about why you need to shut down the nightlife, just look at who is getting infected. We need more hikikomori and less party party.

VERY very happy its going down.

Going down?

Saturday, 2nd January: 814

Saturday, 9th January: 2268

178% Increase

Sunday, 3rd January: 816

Sunday, 10th January: 1494

83% Increase

Clearly skyrocketing.

But as some say “ignorance is bliss”.

Better not understand the numbers/deny reality and pretend life is normal... until someone close to you needs hospital assistance (covid or non covid related) and won’t be able to.

Then you’ll understand the consequences of playing with fire and not cooperating.

Thirty-nine coronavirus-related deaths were reported.

Don't know what the numbers were past few days but last time I looked here it was 58 or thereabouts.

I'm always looking for positive things I guess I'll consider this as one

Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases said authorities have found a new strain of the coronavirus in four passengers arriving from Brazil.

You are right, it seems to be a slightly different version of the Brazilian variant B.1.1.248 with parallels but also new ‘features’ compared to B117 or 501.V2 that are already widely known. It’s difficult to say more as the data is still fresh and insufficient. Take care and stay healthy, everyone.

The uptick in children recently is to me, a red flag.

It was the first time for me seeing stats for cases of people younger than 20 so I have no idea.

Could you share since when did you notice the uptick in children?

By uptick im assuming you mean in percentage relative to all cases/age groups as actual number of cases for all age groups are expected to be on the uptick now

VERY very happy its going down

Come back for the monday's numbers !

@Zoro: The JT numbers match NHK news numbers and other news sources presented on tv, but at least JT tells you which day they are from. usually four days back.

So few tests again?

Someone refer to the increase of the infection on the media, saying "government need ask the restaurant owners to reduce the number of customers throughout the day instead of shortening its operating hours". I think it's exactly right. Actually, there have been misunderstandings such as "people are welcome to have lunch with their friends or family members". In order not to deteriorate the growth of Japan's economy, the government needs to hear the voices of workers on the spot, and change the way it's done at the first state of emergency period.

I'd really like to see more widespread testing to reveal the situation. This floundering in the dark needlessly really stresses me out.

One of my Japanese friends daughter is an English Teacher (Not an ALT, a Japanese English teacher), she said of schools remaining open 'Teachers don't have human rights'. I kind of laugh cried at that.

There were studies done in iceland, that revealed the spread in Children is around 50% that of adults, but that was released in November, before the new strains were evident. The uptick in children recently is to me, a red flag.

Thank you @spinningplates,

I'm especially concerned because I have kids and we live in a place where a good majority are elderlies.

Because virus spreads 24hr not only after 8pm

A slight dip in the percentage of positive tests. A big jump in the record number of cases announced on a Sunday though.

These numbers are for Jan 7. From now on, an increasingly large percentage of cases will be people who've been back at work or school after New Year. They may have caught it from a family member etc. like folks over New Year, but they will have also mixed with others at their normal gathering place.

Slightly encouraging...

Really? Considering, that all dead won’t be infected again and not blur your fine low numbers anymore, this is probably true. In all other cases more not...

If the numbers can be believed, that's a pretty big drop in positivity, though of course testing is way down and it's the highest Sunday amount to date.

TOTAL SHUT DOWN NEEDED.

@Zoroto

Last sunday was 816 with reported tests from dec. 31st with test amount 2828.

Today you have almost 14.000 tests.

Why do they give cumulative totals ?

Really need to wait for results next weekend, as that will take us two weeks post New Year. But not awful news today. Agreed.

Still pretty busy out and about today.

My numbers are from the article here at JT from sunday Jan. 3rd.

Please read that article.

The cases were 816. The test amount was 2828 done on Dec. 31

Todays article, also a sunday, says cases 1494, a test amount of 13774 done on Jan 7th.

The # of test on Dec 31st was 4530.

The article here on JT from last sunday says, the test amount was 2828 on Dec. 31st.

I mean maybe you are right and probably the information on JT is wrong.

But anyway your amount of test 4530 is higher than 2828.

That is good.

VERY very happy its going down.

That is SLIGHTLY encouraging, given the weekday testing. Veteran readers would expect numbers down this coming Tuesday and Wednesday - reflecting weekend testing, no?