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Tokyo reports 237 coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 1,065

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The Tokyo metropolitan government on Sunday reported 237 new cases of the coronavirus, down 56 from Saturday.

The number (127 men and 110 women) is the result of 6,950 tests conducted on March 4. The number of cases aged 60 and over is 61.

The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo is 52, up one from Saturday, health officials said. The nationwide figure is 373.

Nationwide, the number of reported cases was 1,065. After Tokyo, the prefectures with the most cases were Saitama (123), Kanagawa (119), Chiba (113), Hokkaido (84), Osaka (76), Hyogo (41), Fukuoka (35), Miyagi (32) and Aichi (27).

The number of coronavirus-related deaths reported nationwide was 25.

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6,950 is pretty low, can it get any lower?

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Numbers continuing to fall. Active cases are about 15% of what they were a in January. Headed in the right direction!

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AkulaToday  05:28 pm JST

Numbers continuing to fall. 

You mean testing numbers, right?

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So the GoTo spikes never happened. Live and learn. Full speed ahead Japan. Once again, no thanks to leadership and thanks to the diligence of the populace you seem to have dodged da bullet innit. Bring on the Olympics. Who doesn’t want to watch the best athletes in the world on show now?

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One year and counting and many people still clueless about testing.

If there are less people who are sick there will be less who will be tested.

To think that govt sets number of tests daily and stops testing beyond that even if there more that need to be tested is plainly stupid.

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@Ricky Kaminski13

Were you hibernating ? Or are you sarcastic ?

There were 2359 recorded deaths 3 months ago (2020/12/06) now there are 8238 recorded deaths (2021/03/06). On September 3th, they accounted to 1369. The rise hastened in November.

Did you bother looking at the curb ?

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/special/coronavirus/data-widget/

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Also tests now are covered by insurance and there are many privete testing centers, no need for govt approval

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The calm before the storm......

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