21 June 2022, Tuesday– Coronavirus Digest from Japanese Morning TV News Part 1 (of 1):
Headlines and (yesterday’s) numbers

Day 785 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 directly covid in these headlines and I had to get the numbers from the websites.

Rainy season is now in full swing across Kyushu and Honshu, with the former about to take a battering.

Oh, and earthquakes are expected to continue to be frequent in the coming months.

Photo 2a

[Taken from the NHK website]

7800 new cases confirmed

[vs. 7956 for the same day last week. 9106 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 (probably).

Nowhere with five digits

Quadruple figures in 1 prefecture:

Tokyo

10 prefectures in triple figures

25 prefectures in double figures

1 prefecture (Akita) in single figures)

Tokyo on 1076 [vs. 960 same day last week, slightly up]

Osaka on 394 [vs. 424 same day last week]

The number of positives at immigration testing was 18

[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 41, no change vs. the previous day.

13 deaths announced yesterday, for a total of 31059

Total recorded cases at 9161428

Recovered cases at 8978023 (around 14,000 recovered cases up from the previous day)

Total active cases are at 152,346 (down around 5000 vs the previous day).

Percentage of active cases as a percentage of the grand total of cases is 1.66%.

Photo 03

Nothing directly covid-related, but just to note that the idea that the pandemic and changing workstyles was going to trigger a significant urban exodus don’t seem to be borne out.

Last month’s average price of a newly built “mansion” apartment in the 23 special wards of Tokyo stood at 77,600,000 up 11.9% on the same month of last year. [Price increases in materials should be factored in too, I guess.]

Photo 04

The main reasons given for this is the selling of high price “tower mansions” with the 23 wards, and a spate of sales of apartments near train stations even in the suburbs.