The Tokyo metropolitan government on Sunday reported nine new coronavirus cases, down seven from Saturday and down 11 from last Sunday.
The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo is seven, unchanged from Saturday, health officials said. The nationwide figure is 43, down seven from Saturday.
Nationwide, the number of reported cases was 73. No coronavirus-related deaths were reported.
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22 Comments
purple_depressed_bacon
It's all fun and games until Omicron comes to town...and we all know it will. I just hope to whatever gods and deities out there that it arrives after the holidays.
El Rata
Awesome, I hope they keep the borders closed for a while, especially with a supposed new variant supposedly going rampant in Europe. Miss the fam? Don't live in Japan.
Nobody is forcing you. I rarely wear them and have never had anyone coming to tell me anything. Even when flying, the trick is to make that coffee last the entire flight.
Kakarot9
So safe and effective that the double-vaxxed Bryan Adams got covid twice in the same month...
There are countries which have a higher vax rate than Japan that have more cases than Japan does. Nothing adds up.
virusrex
The situation is the opposite, if you need to live in denial of the reality to keep your beliefs maybe it is time to reconsider those beliefs.
ian
Great
n1k1
Yet, for whatever the reason it is !
divinda
Within these 73 nationwide, 12 of them were found at the airports during required testing on international arrivals.
So this breaks down as:
-there were 61 cases within the 125,000,000+ population in Japan (a rate of 0.000049%)
-there were 12 cases within the 5,000 (maximum) people coming in from abroad (a rate of 0.24%), all of whom tested negative within the previous 72 hours prior to boarding the flight that brought them here.
(and to extrapolate, if the population of Japan had an infection rate like with the international arrivals, it would mean 300,000 cases in Japan today)
Iron Lad
Good news! Please keep borders closed.
ClippetyClop
The world hasn't 'shut down' and Covid 19 is not like the flu. Hope this helps x x
Wakarimasen
Shows how a more sensible approachmleadsmto better results
smithinjapan
"The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo is seven, unchanged from Saturday,"
With tests on both days being next to impossible to get.
Steve Hermitage
Anecdotal evidence from South Africa suggests symptoms are milder than Delta. The virus and its many variants will continue to spread, and there will be a small percentage of deaths, like any endemic disease such as the flu; the world shouldn't shut down because of it. Fearmongering doesn't help anyone.
kibousha
The calm before the Omicron storm ... I hope I'm wrong.
GdTokyo
Enjoy the respite because when the new variant gets here, as it inevitably will, we will be back to where we were or worse. And it will be because a small portion of the population refuses to take a proven safe and effective vaccine.
wordsoffury
Nah, just good policy by the J government .
TheDalaiLamasBifocals
(Scouse accent) Calm down. Calm down.