22 May 2022, Sunday — Coronavirus Digest from Japanese Morning TV News

Part 1 (of 1) :Headlines and (yesterday’s) numbers

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Day 755 of doing these daily posts continuously.

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Japan covid-related topics in NHK’s 7am news bulletin today:

Nothing covid in the news this morning.

13 whole minutes on Biden’s visit to Japan.

The 7pm bulletin last night had a bit on Monkey Pox as well as the covid numbers.

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35922 new cases confirmed

[vs. 39416 for the same day last week. 39327 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 12 prefectures:

Okinawa, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Hyogo, Osaka, Aichi, Shizuoka, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba and Hokkaido

34 prefectures in triple figures

1 prefecture in double figures

Tokyo on 3464 [vs. 3799 same day last week]

Osaka on 3030 [vs. 3440 same day last week]

The number of positives at immigration testing was 63

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The total of current active serious cases stands at 101, down 5 from the previous day.

31 deaths announced yesterday, for a total of 30304

Total recorded cases at 8597702

Recovered cases at 8175080 (around 44,000 recovered cases from the previous day)

Total active cases are at 392,318 (down around 7000 vs the previous day).

Percentage of active cases as a percentage of the grand total is 4.56%