Tokyo reports 577 coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 2,372

Whatever. At this stage, no way are they going to test properly so no point in even reading this- I don't believe anything the gov says anymore.

Excellent job Japan.

@Aly

no point in even reading this

Yes for me too.

The reported numbers are just a kind of "Guideline" for me.

People are losing more and more interest in reported numbers, because it is very tiring.

In my home country, all my friends stopped to check the numbers.

If I ask them how is the situation over there, how many positive cases and tests do you have?

I always get the same answer from them: I don't know and I don't care anymore.

Great to see numbers continue to fall as they are in other countries too.

Active cases have fallen significantly in recent weeks.

Well done Japan!

In my home country, all my friends stopped to check the numbers.

Where’s that? The same place where you told us closing the bars early brought the Covid numbers down?

The positive rate is still way too high. It’s come down quite a bit but it would be more meaningful if the results were from 70,000 tests a day rather than 10,000. For Tokyo’s population this level of testing is grossly inadequate.

I hope this is a real trend that will continue. There is a decline in cases in the U.S. and other countries as well.

Any good news is welcome.

If this trend continues I still believe the Olympics should not be held to reduce the risk of any resurgance and also divert any possible funds from the games to help people who have been negatively impacted.

On the other side, I think when having not even a single vaccine vial at hand, any counting and testing doesn’t make so much sense, as the real result is the same if counted right and tested everyone.

is the result of 10,208 tests conducted on Feb 2

Tokyo has a population of 13 million (not considering Greater Tokyo Area). 13 mil / 10208 gives 1273.5 days which it would take to test all it's citizens. That's about 3.5 years. And I'm not considering even the fact, that in order to keep valid data, you must test over and over and over again.

If you take this number and compare it agains public hospitals in Tokyo....

That is grossly inadequate.

2021 Olympics you say, eh?

I agree that Japan should test more. On the other hand the numbers suggest a downward trend which is encouraging.

There is an article I read that based on testing for antibodies it is estimated the actual number of cases in Japan is 9’times higher than what is reported.

We have limited data to work with so the only thing we can do is follow the trend

If these case numbers were real, I would have expected a decrease in deaths by now.

Deaths still high, hopefully next week it goes down significantly

Stay home.

......same of news

Getting old here guys.

We all know alot of this is bogus. It fun and entertaining to read comments but we all sound like broke records in which we are repeating what we had said in previous post.

I am no longer interested in theses numbers as it make zero sense.

Stay strong and stay safe y'all

Cheers

While Japan has a different approach to testing, it appears effective for understanding the trend of the virus.

The U.S. is no better off, even with tests available for anyone that wants one. In fact, there are LOTS of false positives. Elon Musk did two nasal swabs at the same time- one was positive and the other negative. Add financial incentives for U.S. hospitals that handle COVID patients/deaths and you have data that is unreliable.