Tokyo reports 766 new coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 5,814

Concerning is Okinawa....

Don't worry about Tokyo, Governor Koike has it under control.

Governor Koike has it under control.

sarcasm ?

nobody believes these numbers anymore. they're being manufactured for the O.

nobody believes these numbers anymore

I do. Better to be optimistic !

nobody believes these numbers anymore. they're being manufactured for the O

Absolutely.

Considering what is happening all over the country, it is impossible for a city like Tokyo, with its perfect conditions for mass spreading, to remain with a steady number of cases.

Testing keeps decreasing, not a surprise.

What is a surprise for me is how no one questions it internationally, and will still send their athletes etc, with the risk of taking back new variants to its people.

But money always first, ne?

> Better to be optimistic !

Better to be realistic

do any of these numbers support ending the "state of emergency" as scheduled and proceeding to Olympics time?

Seems not.

A record number of hospitalizations. I’d ramp up the testing to know exactly what we are dealing with in terms of numbers infected and prevalence of particular strains.

Get a clearer picture.

Looks like some want to keep things fuzzy.

Where is the Tokyo Gov? No press conferences? Is she alive? It seems after the IOC told her they were in charge she ran away! Did she run to Okinawa? What happen?

@blacklabel

You know as well as all of us here that the numbers will soon go down...less tests, manipulate numbers makes everything appear to be ok. Hold the Olympics, and then enact the SOE again...

204 deaths from COVID-19 in Japan yesterday, yet the media still insist Japan is doing great. Koike and Suga are blind if they don’t see what’s happening. So many unnecessary deaths.......

ScarceToday 05:33 pm JST

Where is the Tokyo Gov? No press conferences? Is she alive? It seems after the IOC told her they were in charge she ran away! Did she run to Okinawa? What happen?

She's probably taking a leaf out of Abe's book. Things look bad, so disappear and let Suga take the blame. (That's what he's here for).

Plus you're right, the IOC basically told Japan, this is not your country it's ours, and Suga just responded by saying 'Yeah Boss, whatever you say.'

Was sarcasm!

And just the other day were saying that numbers in Tokyo and Osaka have peaked and worst behind us and not go worry because have beaten the virus, and everybody: thank you for staying home over the GW holidays.

Then today we see Okinawa is overwhelmed with record number of cases and they saying that increase in cases due to people travelling there from Tokyo / Osaka (complete with nice graphics and arrows).

So which is it??

And even if the latter, how do an average of just daily 700-1000 cases in Tokyo spread the virus to Okinawa and cause entire hospital system to collapse?? Because, it's just 800-1000 in a city of 30,000,000 people so should be no problem, right ? And those who have the virus are isolating and saying home or are in hospital, right? This is the narrative.

The truth: this is all over Japan and impossible to stop. The only way this will stop is when the virus is ready. Since the authorities certainly don't give a damn....

Good job the can-do crowd are shifting into fifth gear and...will possibly approve the Moderna vaccine tomorrow.

Do you feel the G’s yet?

tora:

The only way this will stop is when the virus is ready.

virus or vaccine?

Those that believe Tokyo only has the low numbers of cases try using logic and math.

Every time Tokyo test more people it gets higher numbers of cases.

Tested 10,000 got just over 1,000 positive.

Tested 7,000 got just over 700 positive

Tested 3,000 got just over 400

Each time between 10% and 15% positive rate quite constantly regardless of how many they test always between 10% & 15% come back positive

Now compare testing number with Ontario Canada, it is doing about 50,000 test a day for a population of 14 million

Tokyo has 34 million far more densely packed.

Logic it simple if the results are always 10% to 15% of those tested then if Tokyo actually did testing like other developed countries we would be seeing 7,000 to 10,000 cases a day.

Something is clearly off in Tokyo

Pukey2

The only way this will stop is when the virus is ready.

The virus. Expect natural herd immunity before vaccine herd immunity in Japan. They are just not undertaking any meaningful measures to deal with the virus here.

These numbers are accurate if you add an extra 0 on the end.

Why Japan isn't being honest with their numbers? My wife suggested they're ashamed to be the same as countries doing badly

204 deaths from COVID-19 in Japan yesterday

The point is that 121 out of 129 deaths in Hyogo were actually some not reported, or reported for a different cause than covid , between March and May

I still don't understand how these numbers are calculated. Do the numbers of cases, deaths and tests reported on a given day pertain to that same day or a few days before?

Does anybody have a source that give the nationwide daily positive ratio, i.e. the percentage tests that turn positive, and its daily evolution? Apparently, the Tokyo positive ratio went down from a peak 8.8 percent on May 5 to 5.8 percent yesterday (official data).

Total shut down. Save lives your's and all around u.

If the number of those in hospital with severe symptoms is 73 (down 8 from Tuesday), it would be nice to know whether those 8 people got better or actually died? The 'down 8 from Tuesday' makes it sound like a positive thing but .....is it?

204 deaths from COVID-19 in Japan yesterday, yet the media still insist Japan is doing great. Koike and Suga are blind if they don’t see what’s happening. So many unnecessary deaths.......

So you think Suga and Koike don't know what is happening, of course they know very well, it is clearly the media that is blind. Of course they too know but no one has the balls to question so the self deceit continues. The cooked numbers are needed for the feeling good comparing with the high numbers of the usual suspect foreign countries.

Move on fear mongers, the virus is not getting out of control and Japan isn’t becoming the next India. There are many reasons why this is and I’ve mentioned before, however my reasons are dismissed. Yet, there is no doomsday scenario, just people with outlandish conspiracy theories that the government is concealing deaths.

When Osaka was hitting daily numbers of over 1,000 we were told that unlike Tokyo it is was because the prevalent strain was the highly contagious new variants and that the new variant was increasing in Tokyo as well and was just a matter of time before the prevalent strain would be replaced by the highly

contagious strain, the numbers for Tokyo indicate that the highly contagious strain magically lost it's power

to infect whereas it is on the increase and wrecking havoc in other places, Strange indeed, the virus must

be very intelligent sparing Tokyo and the surrounding prefectures and showing no mercy to prefectures far from Tokyo, or maybe Tokyo took measures to mitigate the spread like ramping up testing, contact tracing or

has vaccinated a majority of the population. We know none of the measures was taken. Mystery indeed.

@drlucifer

What are you going on about!

Tokyo and Osaka numbers haven't changed they remain the same basic percentage of positive tests.

The only thing that has changed is the number of daily tests.

The numbers of positive goes down each time they tests fewer people.

10,000 tested got 1,000 plus positive yesterday 7,000 got just over 700 positive.

The link is right there below the article.

Jgov is playing games hoping few people will look up the daily number of tests.

Logic it simple if the results are always 10% to 15% of those tested then if Tokyo actually did testing like other developed countries we would be seeing 7,000 to 10,000 cases a day.

Of course if the positive results are always 10% of the tests then 100,0000tests will get you 10000.

And if you test all 34million you'll get 3.4 million.

Scary

Vaccinations speeding up, now over 7 million doses done, and for a second day, recoveries have outpaced new infections. I think we have seen the worst, and things will significantly improve from here.