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Tokyo reports 266 new cases of coronavirus

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Back to square one.

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Here we go again....

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After consecutive 20 days of 100 plus cases, Tokyo has recorded just 3 deaths.

Nationally 13000 cases and only 13 deaths

Hopefully this low death rate will continue.

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And again, the raw number of "cases" is irrelevant as the vast majority of people experience no symptoms or very mild symptoms. The numbers that DO matter are those actually REQUIRING hospitalization due to SEVERE symptoms, especially those with multiple co-morbidities.

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carpslidyToday  04:20 pm JST

After consecutive 20 days of 100 plus cases, Tokyo has recorded just 3 deaths.

Nationally 13000 cases and only 13 deaths

Hopefully this low death rate will continue.

Those stats are amazing.

Either they show a pretty successful approach, or someone is playing with the numbers (as some on here claim).

If they are playing with the numbers, and let's say the death rate is double this amount, it would still be low compared to other similar sized countries.

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there really needs to be a distinction between cases with no to mild symptoms and those with severe symptoms. Just saying the number fuels the fear mongering and ignorance

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The production in the car factory where I work has increased this month, for Mazda and Toyota lines, I've even been doing overtime.

In August it will just keep increasing, so in my factory, despite those numbers of infection not just in Tokyo but in other provinces as well, things will just keep going as normal.

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13000 out of 120,000,000 is not bad.

some world cities have almost that daily.

keep up the good work japan!

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Hopefully this low death rate will continue.

Yes lets hope but I think the real root cause of death is not being reported to WHO so if someone dies from Pneumonia they would not have to claim it was due to Covid-19 or if they died from a stroke they wont report that it was COVID-19 related complication that lead to the death.

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By the time those 266 get tested and confirm they had already spread the virus into 266 diffrent trains and 266 different groceries store, a vicious cycle of rinse, repeat and re-infect. This virus is going no where it seems.

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13000 out of 120,000,000 is not bad.

some world cities have almost that daily.

keep up the good work japan!

Not bad when you are testing less than a country like a Bahrain with a population of 1.58M. Those world cities are testing at more than 10 times the numbers they are reporting.

New York is doing 70,000 to 80,000 a day despite the number of daily infections falling below 600

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The US Environmental Protection Agency reported the following products effective against the coronavirus, COVID-19,

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/lysol-disinfectant-approved-for-use-against-covid-19-heres-what-else-can-work

Also, status of Japanese drug Avigan,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favipiravir

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Thanks Marcelito,

that was my first thought when I saw this:

as public concern mounts over the pace of infections becoming faster than ever this month.

@Goodlucktoyou

13000 out of 120,000,000 is not bad.

some world cities have almost that daily.

keep up the good work japan!

all exponential growth begins somewhere

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The government needs to increase its aggressive urging policy by at least 10%.

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There has been volatility in daily numbers due to technicality (e.g. timing gap). Thus I suggest publishing the 3-7 days rolling average alongside other critical data/variables (e.g. local healthcare capacity) to see the whole and ongoing pattern.

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RecklessToday  09:07 pm JST

This is crisis information management to control the mood of the people. Japan tests few, in fact I am not even sure who or why they are testing, just that they are not testing many、

The level of testing and who gets tested seems random.

Mass testing or even uniformed testing of people isn't going to happen

So why not only test those who require hospital admission along with regular random testing of medical workers/high risk groups and those living or working elderly care centers.

Would seem a better use of resources.

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Reckless

This is crisis information management to control the mood of the people.

Controlling the mood of the people will not bring the spread of the virus under control or lead to understanding of the spread of the virus.

There is no effective method of controlling the spread of a virus than to test massively.

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drluciferToday  10:40

Controlling the mood of the people will not bring the spread of the virus under control or lead to understanding of the spread of the virus.

All true, but seeing as the government isn't going to mass test and seems unwilling or unable to effectively bring under control.

Continuing in the same manner seems pretty pointless, thus my suggestion to focus testing on high risk groups, while advising those presenting symptoms to stay home.

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actually EU is criticized recently because all dead people are tested on covid19. If they find the virus even cause of death as car crash will be reported as "covid19 death" because they had the virus when they died.

then Japanese approch if it can be anything else than covid19 then it is anything else...that's why the death rate is lower in Japan...along with lower testing...

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If they find the virus even cause of death as car crash will be reported as "covid19 death" because they had the virus when they died

Personally, I’m skeptical if this claim.

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If they find the virus even cause of death as car crash will be reported as "covid19 death" because they had the virus when they died

Personally, I’m skeptical if this claim.

Because it's not true. If anything, deaths are being under-reported according to the Financial Times.

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Japan has the model in which the world should follow. Even before Covid-19 arrived, the cleanliness of public spaces is the best in the world. With such populated areas and packed trains (Tokyo), death rate is very low, yet the livelihood of most people is not effected too badly. Restaurants and hotels, tourist destination are another story, hopefully the "Go to" travel plan helps them get through this, along with the "Go Eat" campaign coming soon to help restaurants.

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artistatlarge, strangerland

you can be sceptical, some of the claims were hoax...

but I know this for sure, not because I just read something somewhere...

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