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The Tokyo metropolitan government on Tuesday reported 563 new cases of the coronavirus, up 171 from Monday. The number is the result of 4,913 tests conducted on Dec 19.
The tally brought Tokyo's cumulative total to 52,382.
By age group, the highest number of cases were people in their 20s (133), followed by 120 in their 30s, 96 in their 40s and 77 in their 50s.
The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo is 64, up one from Monday, health officials said.
Nationwide, the number of reported cases was 2681. After Tokyo, the prefectures with the most cases were Kanagawa (348), Osaka (283), Saitama (196), Hyogo (190), Aichi (190), Chiba (152), Fukuoka (88), Hokkaido (84), Kyoto (81), Hiroshima (76), Miyagi (41), Tochigi (34) and Shizuoka (30).
Twenty-nine coronavirus-related deaths were reported.
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uto
The number of tests conducted is lower.
Fighto!
An 11.5% positive rate is far too high.
Spitfire
Are they sisters or mother and daughter?
nakanoguy01
Once again, that's NOT the positivity rate since these tests are only perfomed on people with symptoms. A true positivity rate would be a sample of everyone in an area.
daito_hak
If you really insist on doing comparisons between the same day, it makes little sense to compare the number of positive cases like that because a lot of them are asymptomatic. What matters is how the number of people with severe symptoms is changing and whether it is increasing too fast . On December 15, the number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo was 78, it is 64 today. So it's not going out of control so far. Far from that.
8T
Tokyo is doomed. They won’t do anything until it’s to late.
Sven Asai
Relying on being situated on far islands and just waiting for undecided vaccination outcomes is not really a strategy. They just forgot that similar mutations observed anywhere else could happen here anytime too.
kurisupisu
Good luck on that crowded train tomorrow!
Fiddlers
Need to hurry up with the vaccine roll out. Come on Japanese bureaucrats do your job properly for once.
Kobe White Bar Owner
4913 test conducted compared to over 350,000 in on day in the UK. Low testing = low results = business as usual and hopes for the Olympics. My nurse wife who’s entire floor has COVID-19 had to fake a fever just to get tested yesterday as she keeps getting told you don’t need it unless you have symptoms. Head in the sand springs to mind.
Kobe White Bar Owner
How does one "fake a fever"? Use a hair dryer to make the body warmer?
by telling them she has a fever genius.
Alex
If you’re only testing people with symptoms of course this will skew the percentage.
didou
mother and daughter