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

Day 757 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 9pm bulletin last night had the covid numbers.

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18510 new cases confirmed

[vs. 21784 for the same day last week. 28510 the same day two weeks ago.]

[Tuesday a.m. (i.e. Monday) figures are traditionally the lowest of the week.]

47 out of 47 prefectures reported cases yesterday.

No new daily case records.

Nowhere with five digits

Quadruple figures in 4 prefectures:

Fukuoka, Tokyo, Kanagawa, and Hokkaido

37 prefectures in triple figures

6 prefectures in double figures

Tokyo on 2025 [vs. 2377 same day last week]

Osaka on 884 [vs. 944 same day last week]

[Tokyo has been down vs. same day previous week for 10 straight days now]

The number of positives at immigration testing was 114

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The total of current active serious cases stands at 96, up 4 from the previous day.

31 deaths announced yesterday, for a total of 30353

Total recorded cases at 8647662

Recovered cases at 8243922 (around 33,000 recovered cases from the previous day)

Total active cases are at 373,387 (down around 14000 vs the previous day).

Percentage of active cases as a percentage of the grand total is 4.31%

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They talked a bit of Monkey Pox [which hasn’t made its way to Japan yet in the current phase].

This Prof who knows his Monkey Pox says he doesn’t think we have to worry about it blowing up like covid.

[But back in the studio, the casters pointed out that unless you are symptomatic, it would be difficult to catch any latent infections at the border. The MHLW remains poised to act and inform us if any case does get found in Japan.]