29 May 2022, Sunday — Coronavirus Digest from Japanese Morning TV News Part 1 (of 1): Headlines and (yesterday’s) numbers

Day 762 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 in this morning’s bulletin, and I couldn’t find the numbers even on last night’s news.

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[Taken from the NHK website]

25759 new cases confirmed

[vs. 35922 for the same day last week. 39416 the same day two weeks ago.]

47 out of 47 prefectures reported cases yesterday.

It is not possible to tell if there are new daily case records from the website stuff, but it is unlikely at this stage.

Nowhere with five digits

Quadruple figures in 8 prefectures:

Okinawa, Fukuoka, Hyogo, Osaka, Aichi, Tokyo, Kanagawa and Hokkaido

38 prefectures in triple figures

3 prefectures in double figures

Tokyo on 2549 [vs. 3464 same day last week]

Osaka on 2243 [vs. 3030 same day last week]

[Tokyo has been down vs. same day previous week for 15 straight days now]

The number of positives at immigration testing was 102

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The total of current active serious cases stands at 81, down 9 from the previous day.

36 deaths announced yesterday, for a total of 30554

Total recorded cases at 8790502

Recovered cases at 8431088 (around 43,000 recovered cases from the previous day)

Total active cases are at 328,860 (down around 26000 vs the previous day).

[I feel like I must have made an error in the calculations somewhere in the last day or two as this drop in cases is substantially different from the day’s cases minus the recovered cases.]

Percentage of active cases as a percentage of the grand total is 3.74%