Dr Yoshitake Yokokura, the head of the Japan Medical Association.
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It is not possible to lift the state of emergency at this stage. We need a sustained decrease in new cases, and we need the reproduction rate (the number of people that one infected person will pass the virus onto, on average) to be well below one to do that.
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noriahojanen
The expert panel confirms in its latest report that Japan's reproduction number has been below 1 without break (Rt
Garthgoyle
Four new cases in South Korea in Thursday. 4. Cuatro. Should have gone the South Korean path but they decided to just ignore, ignore, ignore and "oh poop, this thing is real".
Tokyo-Engr
Yokokura san seems to have been approaching this with a scientific and level headed approach
kurisupisu
How many will die of stress worrying about their finances?