Charlie Uoeh comments

To be expected. Minimal testing on holidays. Look at the results for Monday each week. Looks like Japan is already bored of covid19 though, the pachinko stores are all open again in my neighborhood. I hope the cases really are decreasing, but I highly doubt it.

Keep the elderly and vulnerable at home. Get the local community to support them with deliveries etc like Sweden. There is a potential for over 200,000,000 men, women, and children to die from a lack of food in the wake of this, and then the economic consequences to boot. I started off convinced locking ourselves away was the solution, and I have been for 2 months, but we cant stay at home forever becasue a few elderly people dont feel like protecting themselves. The elderly people in my area seem to be the only ones not taking the situation seriously. Eating out, sitting around in the communal areas in the conbini and supermarket, socializing together in the park, drinking, playing go, bowles etc,