03 July 2022, Sunday — Coronavirus Digest from Japanese Morning TV News Part 1 (of 1): Headlines and (yesterday’s) numbers
Day 797 of doing these daily posts continuously.
See photo captions for stories.
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Japan covid-related topics in NHK’s 7am news bulletin today:
Nothing specifically covid in the headlines but I picked up the numbers and a couple of other talking points.
KDDI was still having problems as of this morning…
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[Numbers taken from yesterday’s 7pm bulletin]
24903 new cases confirmed
[so this is solidly up vs. both 16593 for the same day last week, 14837 the same day two weeks ago.]
47 out of 47 prefectures reported cases yesterday.
New record for daily cases in Shimane.
Nowhere with five digits
Quadruple figures in 7 prefectures:
Okinawa, Fukuoka, Osaka, Aichi, Kanagawa, Saitama and Tokyo
35 prefectures in triple figures
5 prefectures in double figures
Nowhere in single figures
Tokyo on 3616 [vs. 2160 same day last week, quite a bit up]
Osaka on 2545 [vs. 1472 same day last week; so Osaka up too]
The number of positives at immigration testing was 18
[Border testing was relaxed even as the number of people being allowed into the country has doubled from June 01.]
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[Numbers taken from yesterday’s 7pm bulletin]
The total of current active serious cases stands at 55, up 3 vs. the previous day.
11 deaths announced yesterday, for a total of 31326
Total recorded cases at 9381222
Recovered cases at 9151679 (around 15,000 recovered cases up from the previous day)
Total active cases are at 198,217 (up around 10000 vs the previous day).
Percentage of active cases as a percentage of the grand total of cases is 2.11%.
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Remember that pic a few days ago of the roof of a submerged building visible in a dam whose water level had fallen to 34%? Well, the left picture is the same building yesterday, staircase and windows visible and dam at 30% of capacity.
[Water shortages continue. Today’s temperatures and the coming typhoon may ease the electricity crunch though?]
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Typhoon will be reaching Okinawa today or tomorrow, Kyushu on the 5th and western Honshu on the 6th?
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Today is the first anniversary of that mudslide that cut a swathe of destruction through the sleepy village of Atami. You may remember that an overloaded soil dump (from construction sites) up the hill from the village was a contributing factor?
[There are something like 50,000 such dumps around Japan.] 1041 of these in 38 prefectures were inspected and identified as needing corrective measures.
Of this number, corrective action has been completed on 134 as of June 01 this year.
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NHK survey of upper house election candidates now.
On the topic of introducing a system where husbands and wives can keep their own names, 53% in favor, 21% against (62% vs 29% if you include the lukewarms).
[You may be surprised to hear it is so favored considering it keeps getting shot down. Well,…]
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Here is the distribution chart by party (left against, right for)…
…40% of LDP candidates did not answer this question.
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Same-sex marriage? 47% in favor vs. 19% against (59% vs. 26% if you count the lukewarms)
[But…]
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[…you guessed it…]
46% of LDP candidates did not answer this.
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How about the introduction of quota systems (where a fixed proportion of candidate or seats in an election are designated for women?
34% vs 24% in favor (48% vs. 42% including lukewarms).
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34% of LDP and 42% of Komeito did not answer this question.