23 May 2022, Monday — Coronavirus Digest from Japanese Morning TV News Part 1 (of 1): Headlines and (yesterday’s) numbers

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Day 756 of doing these daily posts continuously.

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Japan covid-related topics in NHK’s 7am news bulletin today:

Nothing covid in the news this morning.

The 7pm bulletin last night had the covid numbers.

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31457 new cases confirmed

[vs. 35008 for the same day last week. 42538 the same day two weeks ago.]

47 out of 47 prefectures reported cases yesterday.

No new daily case records.

Nowhere with five digits

Quadruple figures in 11 prefectures:

Okinawa, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Hyogo, Osaka, Aichi, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba and Hokkaido

35 prefectures in triple figures

1 prefecture in double figures

Tokyo on 3317 [vs. 3348 same day last week]

Osaka on 2253 [vs. 2576 same day last week]

The number of positives at immigration testing was 116,

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The total of current active serious cases stands at 92, down 9 from the previous day and below 100 for the first time in a long time.

18 deaths announced yesterday, for a total of 30322

Total recorded cases at 8629157

Recovered cases at 8210995 (around 35,000 recovered cases from the previous day)

Total active cases are at 387,840 (down around 5000 vs the previous day).

Percentage of active cases as a percentage of the grand total is 4.49%