08 June 2022, Wednesday– Coronavirus Digest from Japanese Morning TV News Part 1 (of 1): Headlines and (yesterday’s) numbers
Day 772 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 at all.
The numbers are taken from the NHK website.
There was a piece on prison reform.
There was a piece on saving and investing for retirement.
Coca Cola and Uniqlo have announced price increases.
Photo 2a
[Taken from the NHK website]
17039 new cases confirmed
[vs. 22022 for the same day last week. 32382 the same day two weeks ago.]
47 out of 47 prefectures reported cases yesterday.
Probably no new daily case records (highly unlikely, but not possible to tell from the presentation of numbers on the website).
Nowhere with five digits
Quadruple figures in 4 prefectures:
Okinawa, Osaka, Aichi, Tokyo
32 prefectures in triple figures
11 prefectures in double figures
Tokyo on 1800 [vs. 2362 same day last week]
Osaka on 1925 [vs. 2314 same day last week]
[Tokyo has been down vs. same day previous week for 25 straight days now]
The number of positives at immigration testing was 13.
[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 76, up 1 from the previous day.
26 deaths announced yesterday, for a total of 30816
Total recorded cases at 8976051
Recovered cases at 8736476 (around 25,000 recovered cases from the previous day)
Total active cases are at 208,759 (down around 8000 vs the previous day).
Percentage of active cases as a percentage of the grand total of cases is 2.32%.
Photo 03
Recidivism rates for people who have been to prison have risen considerably over the last 20 years, leading prisons to place more focus on reforming prisoners rather than just imprisoning them.
[Good luck with that considering many older men commit crimes to get a roof over their head and three meals a day, something the state doesn’t help with much outside of prison.]