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Japan on Friday reported 128,728 new coronavirus cases.
The Tokyo metropolitan government reported 12,413 new cases, down 2,038 from Thursday.
The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo is 34, unchanged from Thursday, health officials said. The nationwide number is 539, down 16 from Thursday.
Other prefectures reporting high numbers were Osaka (9,540), Aichi (8,489), Kanagawa (6,764), Saitama (6,204), Fukuoka (6,120), Hyogo (5,706), Hokkaido (5,566), Chiba (5,202), Hiroshima (4,034), Shizuoka (3,848), Kyoto (2,890), Okayama (2,396), Ibaraki (2,396), Kagoshima (2,332), Niigata (2,194), Mie (2,154), Miyagi (2,075), Gifu (2,040), Nagasaki (2,003) and Okinawa (1,987).
The number of coronavirus-related deaths was 347.
© Japan Today
9 Comments
Pickle
33% fewer cases than the same day last week.
Sven Asai
The trend is always only temporarily your friend. lol
ian
Up again, I had hoped it would go to below 300 from today
Wilkins King
Seems like a distant memory when last year, Tokyo was the envy of the world with a low of only 17 Covid cases one day. Stay vigilant Nippon.
justasking
Finally
samuraiJack
The latest “hospitalization” stats dropped from the Jgov this evening.
The nationwide stats thru 8/31 are:
Active cases: 1.74 million cases , down from 1.98 mil
Truly “hospitalized”: 36,778 out of 47,700 beds. 77% occupied. Down from 83%
ICU: 1577 out of 5563 beds. 28.3% occupied Down from 35%
Hotels(No doctors/nurses here) 28,333 out of 70,393 beds. 40% occupied
Total corona beds available in hospItal + hotels=123,000
Home recuperation: 1.4 million (no doctor/ nurses here) Down from 1.58 mil
All numbers down substantially from last week.
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisakunitsuite/newpage_00023.html