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

Day 749 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 7am bulletin.
Yesterday’s 7pm one had the numbers and a bit more about North Korea.

Photo 2a
[Taken from yesterday’s 7pm bulletin]
35008 new cases confirmed
[vs. 42538 for the same day last week. 26865 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 10 prefectures:
Okinawa, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Hyogo, Osaka, Aichi, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, and Hokkaido
37 prefectures in triple figures
0 prefectures in double figures

Tokyo on 3348 [vs. 4711 same day last week]
Osaka on 2576 [vs. 3324 same day last week]
[Two weeks ago was 3161 and 2253 respectively.]

The number of positives at immigration testing was 113 [vs. 123 the previous Sunday].

Photo 02b
[Taken from yesterday’s 7pm bulletin]
The total of current active serious cases stands at 139, down 14 from the previous day.

25 deaths announced yesterday, for a total of 30078

Total recorded cases at 8383903
Recovered cases at 7952246 (around 27,000 recovered cases from the previous day)

Total active cases are at 401,579 (up around 8000 vs the previous day and back over 400,000).
Percentage of active cases as a percentage of the grand total is 4.78%

Photo 03
[I went with this picture because it looks like something out of a dystopian SciFi.]
North Korea [which confirmed its “first ever covid case” on May 12] had 390,000 more people come down with fevers and 8 deaths [bringing their total so far to 1.2 million suspected cases and 50 deaths.