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

Day 763 of doing these daily posts continuously.

See photo captions for stories.

Photo 01

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

Nothing in this morning’s bulletin.

Numbers taken from last night’s 7pm news.

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20828 new cases confirmed

[vs. 31457 for the same day last week. 35008 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 7 prefectures:

Okinawa, Fukuoka, Osaka, Aichi, Tokyo, Kanagawa and Hokkaido

32 prefectures in triple figures

8 prefectures in double figures

Tokyo on 2194 [vs. 3317 same day last week]

Osaka on 1502 [vs. 2253 same day last week]

[Tokyo has been down vs. same day previous week for 16 straight days now]

The number of positives at immigration testing was 130

[Oof, higher than 12 of the prefectures]

Photo 02b

The total of current active serious cases stands at 88, up 7 from the previous day.

19 deaths announced yesterday, for a total of 30573

Total recorded cases at 8820330

Recovered cases at 8465538 (around 34,000 recovered cases from the previous day)

Total active cases are at 324,219 (down around 4000 vs the previous day).

Percentage of active cases as a percentage of the grand total is 3.67%

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While I am here, I will just mention that the Sunday 7pm news had a feature on how the prices for around 8000 household items was set to rise this summer.

They then mentioned that rail companies are planning to raise fares again.

At the full year closing for last year, that 22 (or nearly 90%) of the 4 JR groups plus 21 private railway companies were in the red.