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The Tokyo metropolitan government on Saturday reported 814 new cases of the coronavirus, 31 more than Friday. The number is the result of 3,816 tests on Dec 30.
The tally brought Tokyo's cumulative total to 61,774.
By age group, the highest number of cases were people in their 20s (213), 138 in their 40s, 137 in their 30s, and 118 who are 65 and older.
The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo is 94, six up from Friday, health officials said.
Nationwide, the number of reported cases was 3,045. After Tokyo, the prefectures with the most cases were Kanagawa (382), Osaka (258), Chiba (236), Saitama (213), Aichi (158), Fukuoka (124), Hyogo (104), Kyoto (83), Hokkaido (77), Hiroshima (76), Tochigi (55), Gunma (42) and Shizuoka (42).
Twenty-two coronavirus-related deaths were reported.
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AG
A bit concerning when the new “low numbers” of weekends/festive seasons are around 700/800.
Glad some measures are finally about to be implemented.
Hoping for vaccines to start being widely distributed in Japan within the first quarter, as I miss the good old “izakaya hopping” nights.
Dexter
Actually, this isnt even cautious level. Just look at Europe or USA
mmwkdw
Its quite simple to understand.
The 18-30 year old live at home Kids with Parents, go out Partying, etc. thinking that they're immune or something stupid like that, then they go home and infect their older 50+ Parents.
The Government should curtail all flights into and out of the Country, restricted all travel within the Country, and impose strict Socializing activities to those that are necessary - such as shopping for food, essentials.
Unfortunately, the Government has done completely the opposite.
mmwkdw
China needs to pay for this mess.
You only need to Look at their continued efforts to conceal what happened to understand this. Zero transparency, 100% spin-doctoring, imprisonment of all, (including Kids even) who say things that upset those in power.
Totally Messed up Country.
thelonius
And yet, a vaccine is still months away at best. When this is all over, I hope somebody reports on the adject incompetence of this government and the nonsense that led to a months long approval process.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210102_09/amp.html
Luddite
Infection rates are rising quickly and steeply, yet still people are complacent or believe a mask is enough. We went out for a walk today and our local shrine was packed, masks were mandatory, a one way system was in place, but no social distancing. Same in the department store food hall, choc a bloc.
Sal Affist
The tally brought Tokyo's cumulative total to 61,774.
This number is not important unless we are hoping to get to herd immunity. It probably means about 50,000 people have had it and recovered over the last ten months. At this rate, Tokyo will reach herd immunity in several hundred years.
Twenty-two coronavirus-related deaths were reported.
This is the important number. About one death per ward in Tokyo.
Raw Beer
That's the number of confirmed infections. The real number is probably over 100X that. So we are not all that far from herd immunity.
JK
It seems to me that a large portion of cases go undetected since alarmingly high portion of people tested are positive.
virusrex
No, there is nothing "probable" about it, your calculation is arbitrary and not supported by the evidence. Increasing numbers of infected people every day is mutually exclusive with being anywhere close to herd immunity, if we were even months away we would see a decrease of new infections, not the opposite.