29 June 2022, Wednesday — Coronavirus Digest from Japanese Morning TV News Part 1 (of 1): Headlines and (yesterday’s) numbers
Day 793 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. Tokyo is asking people to save electricity (but not skimp on the air conditioning) and election coverage is taking up the slack that might usually be afforded to covid news.
Yesterday, I commented that though the 7am news is 45 minutes long, NHK Plus only put up the first 30 minutes of it on their streaming site. When I inquired about this to the NHK site, I got a reply that from 7:30, they are running party political broadcasts, that’s why the news has been cut short. So the election really is taking up a chunk of the news time in addition to the considerable coverage it was getting on the show anyway.
Photo 2a
[Taken from the NHK website]
19386 new cases confirmed
[so this is solidly up vs. both 15384 for the same day last week, 15331 the same day two weeks ago.]
47 out of 47 prefectures reported cases yesterday.
No new daily case records (probably).
Nowhere with five digits
Quadruple figures in 5 prefectures:
Okinawa, Osaka, Aichi, Kanagawa and Tokyo
29 prefectures in triple figures
13 prefectures in double figures
Nowhere in single figures
Tokyo on 2514 [vs. 1963 same day last week, quite a bit up].
Osaka on 2302 [vs. 1511 same day last week; Osaka up too]
The number of positives at immigration testing was 17
[Border testing was relaxed even as the number of people being allowed into the country has doubled from June 01.]
Photo 02b
[Taken from the NHK website]
The total of current active serious cases stands at 46, up 1 vs. the previous day.
***108*** deaths announced yesterday, for a total of 31263
[The daily total is more like 16. 92 of today’s total are backlog numbers of people between Jan 29 and Mar 04 whose deaths had not been reported to the Osaka city welfare center as covid-related.
Total recorded cases at 9286486
Recovered cases at 9093370 (around 15,000 recovered cases up from the previous day)
Total active cases are at 161,833 (up around 5000 vs the previous day).
Percentage of active cases as a percentage of the grand total of cases is 1.74%.