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Japan on Sunday reported 64,044 new coronavirus cases.
The Tokyo metropolitan government reported 8,077 new cases, up 59 from Saturday.
The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo is 25, up one from Saturday, health officials said. The nationwide number is 311, up two from Saturday.
Other prefectures reporting high numbers were Kanagawa (4,457), Osaka (4,286), Saitama (4,187), Aichi (3,774), Hyogo (2,927), Chiba (2,851), Fukuoka (2,411), Hokkaido (2,185), Shizuoka (1,959), Hiroshima (1,898) and Kyoto (1,487).
The number of coronavirus-related deaths was 72.
© Japan Today
16 Comments
tora
Yep as others have said, its time to move on. Japan you just have to stop this over reacting to everything. It's tiring and the rest of the world is watching and starting to ask questions.
And also stop vaccinating young people, especially, unnecessarily. And don't get me started on those masks. On public transport, perhaps. But, people driving alone and wearing one, or kindergarten children being forced to wear them outdoors, etc. It's nonsense.
Alex
This is pointless reporting now.
Andy
Please get over it and move on.
Stephen
Masks have become almost fetishized in Japan - obscene to see tiny children and healthy youngsters wearing a paper veil clamped over their mouths. They don’t work against omicron, are not worn properly by the vast majority and are absolutely detrimental to mental health. End the madness.
denny
News reports say...probably by end of October...Japan will re-instate the VISA FREE 90 days stay..ending this crazy applying at embassy for a visa...NO tour group mandatory...No buying ticket or making hotel thru an agent...Just normal....I HOPE...end this crazy crap,,all other major countries HAVE...
You
stop. let the kids breathe, drop those useless masks. get your 4th dose if that make you happy, but let people leave their lives.
Fred Mcgowan
Time for Japan to return to sanity and rejoin the real world ! Covid is here to stay just like the flu, common cold, allergies, etc and you can either get on with your life or do like some of these people; lock yourself in your house, have your food delivered, wear your useless mask even in the shower, and take 42 "booster" shots. Should be individuals choice.
tora
Meanwhile, across the ocean, Japan's neighbors that implemented a zero covid policy such as Vietnam, Taiwan, and China
Barry
In a population of 120 million, its time to stop this worthless daily reporting of figures.
Pickle
@painkiller
You seem confused about your tenses as youre using the word 'upward' here as an adjective when by all measures the direction of cases in the last month is one of decrease.
It is certainly 'up' compared to a year ago when it was barely starting to spread, and now it has been steadily falling for a month... it might even bottom out at its natural endemic status quo at a level that is higher than cases this time last year.
Pickle
Trend: "a general direction in which something is developing or changing"
A number on a specific date in the past has no bearing on a current trend, its illogical to state the trend is upward from last year. You can say the current trend despite being downward is still much higher than daily cases a year ago, but a trend is by nature contextualised to a recent frame of reference, otherwise we may as well throw the term out of the window entirely and only say if the current state is higher or lower than a given point.
Sanjinosebleed
the trend is good!
painkiller
PickleToday 02:06 am JST
@painkiller
Tenses? Yes, upward is an adjective here. Great work!
I think I found the confusion you mention. As my original post mentioned an upward trend compared to last year, and you agree the trend is up compared to last year, I guess the decrease for the last month is what you are focusing on, which is a different issue.
In the last year have there been trends where cases were falling for a month, only to rise again? Rhetorical question.
painkiller
Japan reports 64,044 new coronavirus cases
Huge numbers still.
An upward trend compared to last year.
Japan's government has done nothing to mitigate the effects, and the health and the economy is getting battered continually.
Meanwhile, across the ocean, Japan's neighbors that implemented a zero covid policy such as Vietnam, Taiwan, and China, kept their infections the lowest in the world while having growing economies throughout the crisis.