09 June 2022, Thursday– Coronavirus Digest from Japanese Morning TV News Part 1 (of 1): Headlines and (yesterday’s) numbers
Day 773 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 covid at all.
The numbers are taken from the NHK website.
The war on the Ukraine could disrupt world food supplies (5th largest producer of wheat?), triggering a wave a starvation and poverty.
Last night’s 9pm bulletin had a special feature on “shut ins” (hikikomori) but frankly it sounds like they have the right idea.
Photo 2a
[Taken from the NHK website]
18416 new cases confirmed
[vs. 22768 for the same day last week. 35190 the same day two weeks ago.]
47 out of 47 prefectures reported cases yesterday.
Probably no new daily case records (highly unlikely, but not possible to tell from the presentation of numbers on the website).
Nowhere with five digits
Quadruple figures in 5 prefectures:
Okinawa, Osaka, Aichi, Tokyo and Hokkaido
35 prefectures in triple figures
7 prefectures in double figures
Tokyo on 1935 [vs. 2415 same day last week]
Osaka on 1644 [vs. 1977 same day last week]
[Tokyo has been down vs. same day previous week for 26 straight days now]
The number of positives at immigration testing was 7.
[Border testing was relaxed even as double the number of people are being allowed into the country from June 01.]
Photo 02b
[Taken from the NHK website]
The total of current active serious cases stands at 79, up 3 from the previous day.
21 deaths announced yesterday, for a total of 30837
Total recorded cases at 8994452
Recovered cases at 8757507 (around 21,000 recovered cases from the previous day)
Total active cases are at 206,108 (down around 2000 vs the previous day).
Percentage of active cases as a percentage of the grand total of cases is 2.29%.
Photo 03
Just a few quick stats on hikikomori (“shut ins”).
It is estimated that there are more than one million hikikomori in Japan.
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Edogawa ward did a detailed survey of the problem.
They found 9000 hikikomiri in their ward (this number includes under 14s who are not going to school).
Photo 05
55% of these have been shut in for 3 years or more, 25% for 10 years or more.