Tokyo reports 13,074 new coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 77,450

I'm not one to complain, but I mean bloody hell, come on.

The wave has peaked and things will get a lot better from here. Nice to see case numbers falling.

A million new cases over the past 2 weeks . Hospitals so over stuffed they’re using alternate facilities. Hotels to keep people that should be hospitalized. Terrible. Children still leading the surge . Lock it down already. Not these fake restrictions.

down 4,452 from last Sunday.

Fantastic news everybody! We are almost there now, herd immunity reached and we can get back to normal.

Other countries have seen between a 60-90% decline in their 7 day averages within 3-4 weeks from their peak. Japan cases peaked between Jan 30-Feb 4. 

I believe that may be a bit of an over generalization, as said other countries include those in which 3rd jab boosters have been widely implemented. Japan is at last report unfortunately only at 11%..

A whopping 3,500 tests on the 11th.

@Zoroto, to whom are you directing your comments?

The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo is 65, up three from Saturday, health officials said.

Sixtyfive out of 15 million. Why is this even a topic. "Cases" mean nothing.

Steven Mccarthy

A million new cases over the past 2 weeks . Hospitals so over stuffed they’re using alternate facilities. Hotels to keep people that should be hospitalized. Terrible. Children still leading the surge . Lock it down already. Not these fake restrictions.

I do not see any the things you are scared about here in Tokyo. However, it sounds like you might consider a move to Hong Kong where they are following CCP policy and shutting the city. It is "locked down already", with people hungry and angry and garbabe piling up in the street. Sounds wonderful.

Here are 5 examples. The first number is the 7 day case average at the peak. The second is 4 weeks later.

South Africa: 23.4K; 4.6K (80% decline) it has declined more since then BTW

US: 800k; 187k (77% decline)

UK: 181k; 71k (61% decline)

The numbers in the UK are well down but daily new cases are still higher than when the Omicron surge started in late November. About 1% of the UK's population is getting inflected every two weeks.

Remember, once you reach the peak of a wave, that means that you're about half way through the infections, and less than half way through the total deaths.

It's a long holiday weekend, however, 13,917 tests, 13,074 infections a a positivity of 93.9%. Regrettably it 'ain't peaked yet, so let's wait until Wednesday before we start cheering it's over!

Sixtyfive out of 15 million. Why is this even a topic. "Cases" mean nothing.

WillieB - yes, you mentioned something similar before, perhaps it was:

Sixty two (62) out of fifteen plus million (15.000.000+), in other words nothing. What a charade.

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Fortyfive. 45. Out of a population of 14 million. Which is fundamentally nothing.

Glad that you added an extra million to the population of Tokyo.

These are not massive numbers, but it is not the entirety of those in hospital. It describes those likely to die.

Nationwide, about 140 are dying daily, despite the vaccination efforts and the mask wearing, all of which I suspect you also dislike. Yes, despite all the efforts to reduce the chances of infection and death, a thousand are still dying a week.

You might try and dismiss it by this repetitive claim of "only small number compared to big number", but it is still a quite substantial number on a cumulative basis.

WilliB..

Sixtyfive out of 15 million. Why is this even a topic. "Cases" mean nothing.

You know why. Just doesn't fit your narrative.

Those are ICU beds that are going to be out of use for regular patients for 2-3 weeks.

Manageable at present but putting a major strain on some hospitals. Remember, there is also a 2-3 week lag after infection until those who get really sick end up in ICU.

herd immunity reached and we can get back to normal.

You've been saying this for years

Over 1000 people, humans , mothers, fathers , brothers, sisters, grandparents DIED from Covid this week alone in Japan. How anyone can think that’s okay or acceptable is repulsive. You naysayers and fabricators of facts need a cold hard visit from Karma . Omicron is in FACT the deadliest variant of Covid in Japan. Don’t comment back with stats from another country . This is Japan and no sane person can dispute real facts from here . The current situation with hospitalizations is unsustainable. Hence , they’re putting sick people in hotels , home , alternative clinics. Tokyo is only 1 city in Japan. Only 1 prefecture. There are 46 other prefectures with over 100mil people . I would hate to live in Osaka and have a medical emergency such as a stroke or heart attack right now . They are over stretched. Not my words . A direct quote from the governor. And with children still leading the surge, y’all so called adults need to stop with your candy coated fake facts . Or patently false information. Should be a crime . This peak everyone keeps predicting, sure i wish it were true . But we aren’t even close .

The number of coronavirus-related deaths reported nationwide was 137.

Number not going up at least is welcome.

Is 137 out of 126 million also fundamentally nothing?

@Zoroto

You might want to look at your South Africa stats again. Both cases and deaths are steadily declining. Deaths at a lag to cases which is the norm. Make sure you're looking at the daily graph, not the cumulative. Cumulative can only go in one direction.

Lock it down already.

No !

But You are quite welcome to lock yourself away until ….

For those obsessed with the positive test percentage, a big factor is the 1500¥ at-home rapid PCR tests. If you use one and it's positive, you're more likely to go to the doctor and take the official PCR. If it's negative, you're more likely to just stay home. They are essentially "weeding out" a lot of the negative tests.