20200705 (Sunday) Coronavirus Digest from Japanese Morning TV News Part 1 (of probably 1): Main News
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Today’s Japan Covid-related NHK morning news topics:
– New cases in Tokyo top 100 for the third straight day
– J-league top division soccer restarts with no spectators
In other news, Kumamoto got a bunch of damage after record rainfall.
2 dead and 16 people in a state of cardiac arrest (most of those from an old people’s home that was hit when a river overflowed its banks).
3 firefighters and a police officer are missing after entering a warehouse to investigate a fire.
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Lots of scenes of cars messed up, vending machines knocked over and people on their roofs waiting to be rescued in Kyushu.
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And there was a mild earthquake in Gifu this morning.
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All of which meant that they didn’t get around to the numbers today until 7:23.
274 new cases yesterday.
Too many places affected to name them all. Places with bigger numbers:
131 in Tokyo
20 in Kanagawa, 15 in Chiba, 27 in Saitama
34 in Kagoshima
6 in Fukuoka.
17 in Osaka
9 in Kyoto
Another 6 in quarantine after coming back from overseas.
1 in Hyogo (and I just saw a bulletin say that a new case in Hyogo is a male junior high school teacher in his 30s).
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The news noted than some prefectures were getting their first cases in a long time.
Namely:
Nagasaki, this is their first case since April 17.
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Yamagata, first case since May 4
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Nara, first case since May 27
[Iwate is still a virus virgin…]
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131 new cases in Tokyo, their third consecutive day over 100 and the most since May 02.
However, nearly three quarters of these are in their 20s and 30s.
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62 cases are connected to Host and Cabaret clubs, with 52 of those being from the Shinjuku area.
[So infection-wise, it really is the Hostess with the Mostest.]
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The Tokyo government is asking people to curtail non-urgent, non-essential travel to other prefectures [16 days after they OKed it…]
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And cautioning people to be careful around night businesses, for example by choosing establishments that have put in place suitable prevention measures.
[The other day a TV show mentioned that Tokyo(?) or Shinjuku(?) had a sticker system for businesses that had taken appropriate measures (which you can display in your shop window ). However, uptake has been low, with one of the reasons being that a lot of shops didn’t even know it existed.]
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Lastly, the second half of the J1 season got underway yesterday to empty stadiums [so no change there, amirite?]