The Tokyo metropolitan government on Wednesday reported 676 new cases of the coronavirus, up 120 from Tuesday.
The number (341 women and 335 men) is the result of 2,101 tests conducted on Jan 31.
By age group, the highest number of cases were in their 20s (129), followed by 105 in their 30s, 96 in their 40s, 81 in their 50s, 68 in their 70s, 56 in their 80s and 53 in their 60s. Sixty-two cases were 20 or younger.
The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo is 125, down four from Tuesday, health officials said. The nationwide figure is 897.
Nationwide, the number of reported cases was 2,631. After Tokyo, the prefectures with the most cases were Saitama (257), Osaka (244), Kanagawa (234), Chiba (218), Hyogo (120), Fukuoka (119), Aichi (114), Hokkaido (94), Okinawa (60), Gifu (51), Ibaraki (39) and Gunma (39).
The nationwide total of coronavirus-related deaths was 120.
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mandeep katwal
The cases are never going to stop it means .... travel is never going to end.
Akula
The numbers are staying at lower levels than previous weeks. A good trend. It won't please the doom and gloom merchants on this site who would prefer everyone in Japan had the virus.
Do the hustle
Shouldn’t the new cases of local transmissions be close to zero after a month of state of emergency? I’ll bet the number of new cases doesn’t change after another month of SOE.
Kazumichi
I'm a school teacher. The student the right in front of me was found positive to the PCR test. I asked my boss for PCR test and he said you must be okay if you have worn the mask. This is how the Japanese government trick the people
RickyC
Yesterday night, it was on Japanese TV:
From January 8 to February 8, the share of 65+ years old in daily infection count increased from 11% to 25.65% in a weekly average.
It's inconsistent and illogical increase especially during SoE.
There isn't any better proof of selective and repressed testing since the declaration.
MahoYamada
The Tokyo metropolitan government on Wednesday reported 676 new cases of the coronavirus and
The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo is 125, down four from Tuesday,
The trend is going in the right direction. Well done!
justasking
Is this consolidated public and private records? I read in Reuters that these reports are only from public health centers and does not include private tests.
SandyBeachHeaven
@the Resident! Risk Tisk
As I always say, Japan is doing fabulous and the best country in the whole wide world!
Do not test innocent victims of panic. Waste of time and money. Only test the sick if illnesses represent a Covid syndrome.
carpslidy
Its easy to get a private test if your concerned.
And if it was as easy to get infected as some make out, the whole of japan
would have been infected by now
Sven Asai
That’s on average not even 45 tests per prefecture. What’s going on here? Is the SOE necessary or has the virus suddenly showed mercy and completely disappeared?
GenHXZ
The negligence continues, barely 2,000 tests. They're not taken to task on this either, just follow the lemmings.
nakanoguy01
Which is exactly what Japan has done since the beginning. It worked then. It's possible it might work just enough now before vaccinations begin.
nakanoguy01
I just wonder what's so great about contact tracing, which is the new complaint. It hasn't worked well in ANY country that has implemented it. So please explain the cost benefits of it.
anon99999
Numbers on as steep rise again. New record for official deaths in Japan and Tokyo yesterday. Where are all the accolades for the PM and government in beating the disease!
Maybe stopping contact tracing is not enough to keep the numbers low.
Tora
Contact tracing ?? What contact tracing ?? That's long gone bro. It's every person for themselves now.
justasking
Nothing, if you don’t do it correctly. Anyway, contact tracing allows direct contacts of the people who “publicly” tested positive to be outright tested. Now that they limited the contact tracing to only the old and vulnerable, those in direct contact with the positives will not be tested, hence will not be included in the numbers. Oh My Graphs.
gakinotsukai
2,101 tests LOL
Is it the third world ?
i@n
I have no idea how well other countries do it but Japan is supposed to be good at it, one of the reasons they were able to keep a handle on things until now.
Retrospective contact tracing is i think what they call it, tracing back the main/original sources of infection and identfying clusters are the main goals
nakanoguy01
So two relatively small countries have successfully implemented contact tracing. But you forgot to mention that they also implemented a total shut down in areas affected. No other countries have been able to do this. So explain to me again why CT is so important?
Oxycodin
If virus was so deadly and contagious I would have Been hospitalized by now as I have two kids going to school everyday including the commuting to office on train
is this pandemic not affecting Japan?
HBJ
So I think we've seen enough now to be able to say with a high degree of certainty that more and more people are being 'forced' into taking tests at private clinics in order to manipulate the 'official' numbers downwards.
Unfortunately if you look in more depth you can see that the number of 'official' deaths have continued to increase. This clearly doesn't compute with what they are asking us to believe.
HBJ
Maybe you've just got lucky so far.
Maybe you've had it and remained asymptomatic - in which case lucky you.
If you have had it and remained asymptomatic, maybe you passed it on to someone on the train. I wonder what happened to that person? I hope they were as lucky as you.
justasking
Hopefully, there's a lag between the cases and the deaths. Current deaths must be coming from the surge in positive cases reported in early January. Fingers crossed.
Wick's pencil
The deaths should come down soon. If not, we should seriously question the case numbers.
snowymountainhell
Great Photo! by AP and, ‘Kudos’ to Mr. Koji Sasahara. EVERYONE is wearing a mask correctly over the nose and under the chin. Plus, respecting adequate social distances. Score one for Japan!
noriahojanen
True, but look into their profiles, majority are very old. Some have died at late 80s to 100s, beyond the nation's average. The trend has been consistent since the pandemic outset.
Of 32 dead reported today in Tokyo, 12 at 90s, 14 at 80s, 4 at 70s, and 2 at 60s (no info published about their preexisting conditions). RIP.
新型コロナウイルスに関連した患者の死亡について(第1576報)https://www.fukushihoken.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/hodo/saishin/corona1576.html
Notice that more than 3,000 die everyday in Japan; last year Japan's total death toll decreased despite the pandemic.
i@n
Good info @noriahojanen thanks
The last part is the one i particularly want to know.
I was hoping that when all this has passed the total overall deaths during the period we have this pandemic would be less than the overall deaths in the regular years.
However even though that seems to be the case for the last year its troubling that many of those were due to increased cases of unnatural causes like suicides and killing of family members
Do the hustle
Oh, boy! Sone people just don’t get it, do they? People can carry and spread the virus without symptoms. This is why random testing is important. Only testing those with symptoms is why the virus keeps spreading in Japan. Tokyo should be testing at least 20,000 people a day instead of 2,000. Tokyo will never be rid of this virus with their placid approach to controlling it.
Aly Rustom
from all the stuff I hear from my friends who work in schools, when the students do PE and club activities most don't even bother wearing masks. Schools are a very good place to spread the virus, and until they implement learning from home, I expect the numbers to keep rising
GranKikou
Only 2100 tests.... while other countries do 10’000 per day...
So it means that if 10’000 tests would be made, with this percentage, roughly 3000 cases only in tokyo....
Good game japan to save the unwanted olympics!
CommonSense
Why don't they ever report the number of recovered? Always fear! FEAR!