Tokyo reports 187 coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 822

Must be Disappointing news for the negative Nancys & Debbie Downers

so few cases. the many pelple saying there would be a millions in tokyo were very incorrect i think :)

Zoroto..... those tests were not on a weekday, that figure will be a mix of tests conducted on Friday (a few) Saturday ( a few more) and Sunday.

Not disappointed, less than 3000 tests amongst millions of persons, the joke goes on

Personally, I would not like to be pulled aside and told we are random testing when I feel great. Why do people want to waste money on testing? TiskTisk..plus so many nurses taking blood here do not wear gloves.

After last week's numbers they have things under better control. Maybe sacked the man in charge of the numbers then and replaced with someone who better understands what the number of tests and positive cases that get reported needs to be. Right on cue for the end of the SOE. Question is how long can the number mans maintain the farce. And the government is not helping because they endlessly keep promising they are going to increase the number of tests, search for the mutant strains and even do RANDOM testing. Any of these things will not help the numbers man job but I guess they are totally empty word anyhow and the number of tests will just continue to decrease anyhow.

@Kyakusenbi_Arimasu

Personally, I would not like to be pulled aside and told we are random testing when I feel great.

Why not?

Personally, I would not like to be pulled aside and told we are random testing when I feel great. 

Wouldn’t bother me. I wouldn’t get hysterical over a quick test.

Personally, I would not like to be pulled aside and told we are random testing when I feel great.

Seriously, do you think "random testing' is the strategy applied in other countries ?

At least, you test contact cases to have an efficient tracing strategy, not randomly ... sigh ...

VinkeToday 06:36 pm JST

@Kyakusenbi_Arimasu

Personally, I would not like to be pulled aside and told we are random testing when I feel great.

Why not?

JimizoToday 07:00 pm JST

Personally, I would not like to be pulled aside and told we are random testing when I feel great. 

Wouldn’t bother me. I wouldn’t get hysterical over a quick test.

Well first of all there is nothing randomly done here. There is paperwork and questions and forms and then whispers, then consulting with the others even before they put the long Q-tip up your nose and twist. You have to show your ID cards and possibly now, even my number. I do not have hours of time available for a random pull over. Would be worse than having the police pull you over for a random byicycle check which can take hours.

Well first of all there is nothing randomly done here. There is paperwork and questions and forms and then whispers, then consulting with the others even before they put the long Q-tip up your nose and twist. You have to show your ID cards and possibly now, even my number. I do not have hours of time available for a random pull over. Would be worse than having the police pull you over for a random byicycle check which can take hours.

A bit hysterical and paranoid. The walls aren’t closing in on us just yet.

I’m in favour of more testing to attempt to get a clearer picture of what we are dealing with in Japan. I like facts over narratives.

Well first of all there is nothing randomly done here. There is paperwork and questions and forms and then whispers, hen consulting with the others even before they put the long Q-tip up your nose and twist.

You missed out the climax to your rapidly escalating conspiracy in which they steal your DNA, create a clone who is better at stuff than you, who then pinches your wife & life and you end up reduced to extreme penury in some godawful place like Nagoya or Saitama.

@Kyakusenbi_Arimasu

Well first of all there is nothing randomly done here. There is paperwork and questions and forms and then whispers, then consulting with the others even before they put the long Q-tip up your nose and twist. You have to show your ID cards and possibly now, even my number. I do not have hours of time available for a random pull over. Would be worse than having the police pull you over for a random byicycle check which can take hours.

...but you have no problem in possibly going around infecting people, in case you're actually a carrier of the virus? And you have no problem that there are other people doing the same?

How about then - do you have the time to spend weeks in a hospital, or at home, should you get severly ill?

I am not saying that the positive rate is high, or that today's count is purely based on Friday's test (I know it's not). But 5000 tests for a weekday, when they keep promising increased testing is truly insane.

They don't pull people off the street at random and test them. Unless the criteria for a test has changed (no evidence it has changed) the fact that there are less tests is a good thing. It means less people feel sick enough to go get tested.

As the weather continues to improve, the numbers will likely stay low and/or decrease further.

Love all the comments reeking of jealousy, begging Japan to go into lockdown like the countries they’re probably posting from.

Here’s a novel concept: let it be a choice. You are scared? You don’t indoor and outdoor gatherings? Stay at home? Stop calling it selfish if people wanna live their lives.

What’s really selfish is asking everyone to be imprisoned at home and forcing businesses to close (and all the consequences that come with it), just because you believe the fear mongering.

Going great.

I hope they find less and less people to test.

When are they going to ask private clinics to report numbers?

They don’t need to be “official” or even complete data, but it would have been an easy program to implement in the past 3 months. And the private data is probably as valid and complete as what Japan reports now. I’m still hearing of people getting chest x-rays in liu of PCR tests then sent home to quarantine by the pros who could order real tests.

Has anyone even tried to summarize any of this private data? X tests done per week even?

Regarding “random testing”, that’s not how/why the rest of the world is testing en-masse. Most western countries offer it to people who want tests Or it is required before face-to-face doctors visits, admission to hospitals, dentists, school field trips, etc. Or if you were exposed to a symptomatic kid at school, or on a sports team, or at work. Japan does none of this with their so-called cluster “tracking”. How do I know? Any uptick in positive cases tested because a patient was that sick, should trigger a proportionate increase in testing and find new cases. It snowballs. This is a major factor that drives up testing and the need for testing capacity. We never see tests rise significantly after cases rise in Japan.

A Johnson..... Covid 19 is a notifiable disease, meaning that health professionals have a duty to report ALL cases. The numbers published do eventually contain so-called "private" data.

@Mr Kipling Today 12:02 am JST

I've heard exactly the opposite.

if you get positive you have to re-test yourself in a hospital to get counted in the numbers published.

We never see tests rise significantly after cases rise in Japan.

That is because we haven't seen a significant rise in cases in Japan. Your comparisons to other countries is useless.