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

Day 791 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-y, but boy is it still hot, weather-wise.
Basically, election coverage is taking up the slack that might usually be afforded to covid news.

Photo 2a
[Taken from last night’s 7pm bulletin]
14328 new cases confirmed
[so this is solidly up vs. both 13160 for the same day last week, 13394 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 4 prefectures:
Okinawa, Osaka, Tokyo, with Kanagawa rejoining
26 prefectures in triple figures
17 prefectures in double figures
Nowhere in single figures

Tokyo on 2004 [vs. 1622 same day last week, quite a bit up].
Osaka on 1134 [vs. 883 same day last week; Osaka up too]

The number of positives at immigration testing was a hefty 24
[Border testing was relaxed even as the number of people being allowed into the country has doubled from June 01.]

Photo 02b
The total of current active serious cases stands at 40, up 4 vs. the previous day.

12 deaths announced yesterday, for a total of 31142

Total recorded cases at 9257537
Recovered cases at 9066516 (around 14,000 recovered cases up from the previous day)

Total active cases are at 159,879 (up around 200 vs the previous day).
Percentage of active cases as a percentage of the grand total of cases is 1.72%.