The Tokyo metropolitan government on Friday reported a record high 570 new cases of the coronavirus, up 89 from Thursday. The number is the result of 9,792 tests conducted on Nov 24.
The tally brought Tokyo's cumulative total to 39,649.
By age group, the highest number of cases were people in their 20s (147), followed by 120 in their 30s and 76 in their 40s.
The number of infected people in Tokyo with severe symptoms is 61, up one from Thursday, health officials said.
Nationwide, the number of reported cases as of 7:30 p.m. was 2,524. After Tokyo, the prefectures with the most cases were Osaka (383), Hokkaido (252), Aichi (234), Kanagawa (219), Chiba (107), Hyogo (103), Saitama (103), Shizuoka (58), Fukuoka (58), Ibaraki (45) and Okinawa (38).
Twenty-four coronavirus-related deaths were reported nationwide.
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nonu6976
wow, a record number of test leads to a record number of cases - who would of thought?...
Do the hustle
I’m quite sure that if you were to spend 3 months in hospital on a respirator and the following year with asthma like symptoms and permanent damage to your lungs your focus on fatalities might be quite different.
AG
A few days ago 400 positives out of 1400 tests, yesterday 401 out of 2400 tests, today 570 out of 9000 tests.
Something is not right. Either the number of tests was lower or the number of positives is being capped.
daito_hak
Yeah this is actually very weird.
i@n
Increasing numbers and today new record.
Government must be fudging the numbers to save face and the olympics
daito_hak
Again this sort of statement is actually no valid. The many countries you are referring to test way more than Japan so it's pointless to compare the number of infections.
didou
That’s what I said two days ago that on Friday, we will be back to the normal positive raté of 6%
When we compare apples and apples, we have the true results.
ie right number of tests for the right number of positive results
blahblah222
I highly doubt that test number.
They have not announced any rule changes to the testing requirements. Perhaps it's tests over several days, and they just processed it today. I find it inconceivable that Tokyo will allow such an increase in testing. This is probably a 1 time thing, and we will see the reported test numbers go back down to 4000-6000 level tomorrow.
Japan is all above cover-ups, would be a mistake to place too much trust in government data.
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/e89ed6c57bd1893545dadd3386cb49db18838f1f
Toasted Heretic
Survivors having to deal with lung scarring, or even a lung transfer might have a thing or two to say about that.
Graham DeShazo
Unfortunately, I do not believe this reflects the true nature of the spread of the virus as the effect of the 3 day weekend and Go To campaign will not make be known until the incubation period is reached early next week.
Garthgoyle
Olympics? That's still far. But I keep seeing Roppongi and Shinjuku salsa events on Facebook. Why would anyone keep joining these events and frequenting those places in the current situation?
daito_hak
Ok but how the remaining 227 people divides up? It would be interesting to know.
That's still very low actually.
Yeah but that's for a to
moonbloom
Always important to note how we got here, by who's decisions and guidance.
TARA TAN KITAOKA
Please save human lives first.
Jimizo
That’s still low compared to many countries. What’s the situation on Fantasy Island?
i@n
Seems Osaka has run out of beds for covid-19, be extra careful there folks
Bed occupancy rates:
Osaka 118%
Hokkaido 67.8
Aichi 73.2
Tokyo 63.9
Shizouka 60.4
hmdrpthk
It is worrisome. Winter is also in the corner. The stringent testing requirements should be relaxed.
Pukey2
Olympics, anyone?
Monty
Tokyo reports record high 570 new cases
But also record high amount of tests: 9.792
They never conducted so many tests. (Almost 10.000)
Even me is surprised about increasing amount of tests.
alceste
SARS-CoV-2 belongs to Coronaviridae family and it is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus (Baltimore Group IV).
Influenza virus belongs to Orthomyxoviridae family and it is a single-stranded negative-sense RNA virus (Baltimore Group V).
robert maes
The explanation ids simple. They could no longer hide the real increase in cases an serious cases, so now they lie about the number of tests to get the positivity rate down.
it will get a lot worse with the 3 day long weekend numbers starting to show up.
still talking Olympics now is just irrational.
and Koike is a big disappointment to me but she will be the last politician i have ever believed in.
As the governor of Tokyo saying that the federal government is the responsible one is calling yourself obsolete and disposable.
Bah
RickyC
Fact:
Yesterday finished with 2507 positive cases and 30 deaths countrywide.
There are European countries with 20-30k cases each day with 15, 20 deaths.
I will not make any further comment.
ZENJI
Ladies & Gentleman, The Tokyo Olimpics Cannot Saftly Prcoeed.
Moderator
The story will be updated at around 7 p.m. to include numbers from other prefectures and the number of deaths.
Gobshite
And no one has flu, strange that
Takara
all of the sudden they are able to test almost 10000. They should keep same amount of the test every day, because that will show real situation. 570 from 10000 is nothing for many people.
i do believe that is the way how to make people not panic.
CrashTestDummy
It is the start of the cold and flu (influenza) season where colds and flu cases always rise. Covid19 and influenza are both coronaviruses, so nothing surprising here.
daito_hak
Sorry it was a mistake. I wanted to say that's for a population of more than 5 million people. And 8 deaths compared to what other mortality cause? I guaranty you there are way more than 8 deaths every day without covid so it's pointless to throw numbers without putting them in perspective.
theResident
so...around 6% of tests came back positive? So, its pretty much the best day this week.
Goodlucktoyou
The reason that almost zero tests are carried out is that, you almost have to be dying to get one. That would suggest that many people had a mild flu and recovered and probably have herd immunity
Btw, where in Tokyo is the izakaya that sells ¥190 beer? I have many GoTo Eat vouchers. .
carpslidy
Every says its a concern then almost everyone goes out.
I wear a mask but are not going to do anymore than that, I have a family to feed. Friends restaurants and bars to support.
Elderly people should d
Elderly people die every winter, its a shame but thats nature.
Christopher Glen
And the number of fatalities? That is what matters - and puts the disease into perspective, amongst all the other dangerous viruses out there
Christopher Glen
"Which ones? Ebola? SARS? What's your point?"
My point is COVID-19 is not the only virus we should be worrying about. But thanks to blanket media coverage, and the fear this has generated, cancer patients have missed treatments and appointments.
The fear needs to be reduced - by focussing less on cases, and more on the fatality rate
Monty
I think the posters who are everyday screaming for more tests will be satisfied, or???
Almost 10.000 tests...Wow!