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The Tokyo metropolitan government on Monday reported eight new coronavirus cases, one down from Sunday and two more than last Monday.
The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo is six, one down from Sunday, health officials said. The nationwide figure is 43, unchanged from Sunday.
Nationwide, the number of reported cases was 82. One coronavirus-related death was reported.
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12 Comments
TomandJerry
Good news. Lets keep up the good numbers.
GenHXZ
Why isn't the world media shining a light on this to get the reason behind this miracle?
Mr Kipling
High vaccine rate, almost universal mask usage, not politicized and a culture where social distancing is the norm. No visiting friends or neighbors, no talking to strangers or on public transport. Japan was made for virus prevention!
ian
Somebody told me once, why do women like chocolate? Because they're sweet.
Why do men likes beer? Because they're bitter.
drlucifer
What miracle ?
drlucifer
Why are cases in SK growing despite doing everything Japan is doing ?
I think it is too early to praise Japan, if you have forgotten the virus emerged here later than other countries even the variants also emerged late and before that there were praises in the local media how the Japanese were not contracting the virus because of their special traits only for it to spread as well the moment it found it way here.
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Sanjinosebleed
Cases low because Japan never locked down and many caught the virus and developed natural immunity which is better than any vaccine!
William Round
So nice to see the population doing their best even against the many mistakes done by the government.
Raw Beer
Dr. John Campbell talks about the Japanese miracle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1GF0H9V_1g&t=911s
virusrex
Because it is not the role of the media to do research and increase the understanding on medical matters, that is the role of science.
Citation needed, this is just a baseless supposition not supported by any scientific institution. There is no evidence of widespread natural immunity on the degree that would put the country in herd immunity, vaccination on the other hand is a much more likely explanation.
Hiro
@GenHXZ, actually it did. A few weeks back media were reporting it and were kinda surprise to. Researchers came up with a few idea's. One of them was that actually the virus was exterminating itself. A virus replicate itself to spread. Sometimes it mutate when the replicate contain errors. They actually found out that some of the replicates actually went so wrong that it actually gave us a lucky break. Because it manage to miss something and instead it's exterminating itself. The whole thing was kinda complicated so i didn't remember much anymore about that whole report but the point is that whatever version of the virus was rampaging during the olympic had kinda ran it's course and is currently slowly dying off.
Off course there were a couple other reasons too. Like improving hygiene, increase vaccination rate etc. Adding everything, apparently it created this so called miracle. But this is also why everyone is so afraid of the new variant if it arrive to Japan. Because currently whatever version exist in Japan is no longer as dangerous but if the variant arrive, the replication process is gonna change again and things will go a whole different direction. Especially now that winter is arriving. Virus strive during this time of year. Because there is no air ventilation and everyone is indoor with their ac. That allow the virus to spread easily to others.
What the researcher recommend is to get the boaster shot next year, keep up with the hygiene and make sure to have enough vit D to optimized the immune system. So all i can say is get ready for the winter and be prepared.