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

Day 798 of doing these daily posts continuously.

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Japan covid-related topics in NHK’s 7am news bulletin today:
Nothing specifically covid-related in the morning headlines but I picked up the numbers from last night’s bulletin and a couple of other talking points.
KDDI was still having problems as of this morning as the show began but towards the end, they relayed a report that data transfer was “mostly” back online.
Typhoon, electioneering, Kumamoto flood recovery, and a special piece on a woman able to speak for the first time in 20 years using a medical device.

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[Numbers taken from yesterday’s 7pm bulletin]
23299 new cases confirmed

[so this is solidly up vs. both 14328 for the same day last week, 13160 the same day two weeks ago.]

47 out of 47 prefectures reported cases yesterday.
No new records for daily cases today.

Nowhere with five digits
Quadruple figures in 8 prefectures:
Okinawa, Fukuoka, Hyogo, Osaka, Aichi, Kanagawa, Saitama and Tokyo
33 prefectures in triple figures
6 prefectures in double figures
Nowhere in single figures

Tokyo on 3788 [vs. 2004 same day last week, quite a bit up]
Osaka on 2010 [vs. 1134 same day last week; so Osaka up too]

The number of positives at immigration testing was a quite high 30
[Border testing was relaxed even as the number of people being allowed into the country has doubled from June 01.]

Photo 02b
[Numbers taken from yesterday’s 7pm bulletin]
The total of current active serious cases stands at 61, up 6 vs. the previous day.

5 deaths announced yesterday, for a total of 31331

Total recorded cases at 9404520
Recovered cases at 9166579 (around 15,000 recovered cases up from the previous day)

Total active cases are at 206,610 (up around 8000 vs the previous day and going back over 200k).
Percentage of active cases as a percentage of the grand total of cases is 2.19%.

Photo 03
Tokyo’s numbers have risen for 16 straight days, and yesterday’s number was 1.9 times (i.e. nearly double) that of the previous Sunday.

Photo 04
On the election trail, Kishida was talking up government readiness in the case of a resurgence, and is pointing out here that over 60% of the population is third jabbed, including 90% of old people – one of the best performances in the G7.

Photo 05
It’s raining across much of the eastern (southern?) seaboard today, and the typhoon is expected to make land in Kyushu tomorrow bringing heavy rain.