Tokyo reports 300 coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 1,134

where are the lowering trend fans ?

gakinotsukaiToday 04:38 pm JST

They are having a meeting, discussing, writing reports, hanko stamps on them and send them by fax. Maybe they are also discussing about changing the narrative they are using for way too long.

gakinotsukaiToday  04:38 pm JST

where are the lowering trend fans ?

Right here. The other day I said it'll probably be wobbling around for a while while staying relatively low.

Somebody is in trouble for doing too many tests that turned positive. They have already scheduled the end of the SOE so they need those numbers to keep going down and especially not be over 300. Further reduction of tests obviously needed

while staying relatively low.

with low testing, sure all numbers stay "relatively" low

I always must laugh about the comments here according the Numbers.

yesterday ~4600 tests, ~170 new cases.

People complain, oh very very low tests.

But nobody said anything positive about the low new cases.

Today almost same test amounts but higher number of cases.....oh very high numbers of new cases.

Nobody, except Zoroto, mentioned about the low tests.

That is really funny.

Right here. The other day I said it'll probably be wobbling around for a while while staying relatively low.

Yep, just bobbing around at that level at the moment.

Could change either way.

@Jimizo - Safe to assume once they lift the SOE Sunday- it will be back up hovering 500-600 by the middle of the following week. That's my take on it. Bit of warm weather, hopefully encourage people to socialise outside rather than in so we don't return to early January numbers off the back last week of December.

These numbers are tiny and don't justify all of the weeping and wailing.

All Debbie Downer comments here are upvoted,

while anyone trying to be positive is downvoted.

Says a lot about the mindset of a lot of people on here

 Further reduction of tests obviously needed

If they do that people might get suspicious. Better to do many tests and report low positives =)

....but I am looking forward to a socially distanced bite to eat after work without having to finish my beer by 7!

Oh, I am a realist.

What I am not, is someone who waits, like a drooling dog waiting for his dinner, for numbers to come out every day, so as to complain about the low number of tests, or the government fudging the figures - every day !

4387 tests in a city of 15 million. Do I need to say more?

who cares about the daily count? This data point is meaningless because hospitalization rates and deaths continue to fall.

Not impressed by line jumping Suga.

He's been in office six months now, what has changed? We're at the same average figures for Covid we were last July.

hospitalization rates and deaths continue to fall.

can we trust the hospitalization rates?

do you need to be in the super-exclusive list of tested to get a chance to be hospitalized?

I am currently in hospital for something non-covid related. I have been talking to the doctors and nurses about the situation. This is a large city hospital, but it doesn't accept Covid patients. The neighbouring city has the main Covid wards. Every patient has to have a PCR test before being hospitalised. Plus the staff have them on a weekly basis. I wonder if these tests are included in the figures.

It would be wise to keep the SOE in place until the end of "Golden Week".

Anything earlier only serves to increase the risk of infection as more people will be tempted to mingle or make more "non-essential" outings or both. Stay home. Stay safe.

A doctor talking on the idiot box last week suggested we'd need to keep wearing masks for the next FIVE years.

sounds like this quack has a vested interest in the mask industry