Tokyo reports 573 new coronavirus cases; 668 in Osaka

We should all be thankful that we are not sick and these are other people. The happiness of our lives is important, so the number of people should be counted as this is the best way to know.

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The 7 day moving average NUMBER OF TESTS for tokyo is always reported in the link above.

The number has been dropping steadily since April 22, 2021 from above 10,000 to 6,000-7,000 /day average as of May 8.

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"The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo is 78, up five from Sunday, health officials said.

Thank you! Now, can you tell me in what universe 78 people in hospital in a city of 20 million is a world-shaking emergency that requires shutdowns, cancelling of Olympics and closure of countless small businesses?

How do you say cooking the books in Japanese?

ブークをクックする. The pandemic has given katakana a new lease of life.

The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo is 78, up five from Sunday, health officials said. The nationwide figure is 1,152, up eight from Sunday. As I have posted before. Wait until the GW post numbers come in.

How do you say cooking the books in Japanese?

Considering the incubation period is up to 2 weeks, then this number is meaningless.

Going forward, I presume that the PR regarding the SoE will be heavily weighted to the 7 day average.

1 day a week of extremely low official testing is a big help in controlling this number.

It’s convenient they don’t mention how many tests were carried out. The new cases dropped by half over night? Yeah, right! I’m sure we’ll see a continuing trend of lower numbers reported as the Olympics draw closer.

Are these numbers correct???. Lives are in your hands.

Now if they gave numbers of hospitalizations, that would at least have some significance. But we never see that. All we hear about is cases, cases, cases.

"The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo is 78, up five from Sunday, health officials said. The nationwide figure is 1,152, up eight from Sunday."

It took me hours of ploughing through the 14 lines of this article to help you, hope you appreciate it.

Tokyo reports 573 new coronavirus cases;

Feeling like a broken record repeating the obvious, but "cases" is a completely meaningless number for a disease with a 99.5% mortality rate and moderate to no symptoms for the vast majority.

Now if they gave numbers of hospitalizations, that would at least have some significance. But we never see that. All we hear about is cases, cases, cases.

Yes!!! We did it!! By the rate we are going the numbers will be half by tomorrow!! Well done Japan

What a helpful number!

How many people swallow this line hool and sinker daily?

Suga and his cohorts working hard to fudge those numbers before Bach's rescheduled visit in June!

Useless data.

It's a result of low test numbers during the week-end.

A 7-day trend is a better indicator.

Sorry don’t believe it

Down 135 from last Monday, but without knowing the number of people tested...

Number of tests for a Sunday are usually very low so no real surprise there...

Under Reported.

Calm down...I didn't say it had today's info. It just a lot of info with which to gauge how things are trending, which is ultimately more important than looking at a single data point.

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https://toyokeizai.net/sp/visual/tko/covid19/en.html

has test number info as well as prefecture breakdown of infections, deaths, etc,

No, it doesn't. The last testing data is from the 7th, same as the Tokyo Government website.

https://toyokeizai.net/sp/visual/tko/covid19/en.html

has test number info as well as prefecture breakdown of infections, deaths, etc,

Yet another decrease in the trend. i think it is under control.

If you don't know the number of people tested, how can you know the trend?

573 is meaningless without knowing the number of people tested.

Yet another decrease in the trend. i think it is under control.

Could be just sarcastic.

impossible!

Time to crack open a celebratory bi-ru

Yet another decrease in the trend. i think it is under control.