31 May 2022, Tuesday — Coronavirus Digest from Japanese Morning TV News Part 1 (of 1): Headlines and (yesterday’s) numbers
Day 764 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 in this morning’s bulletin.
Numbers and stories taken from last night’s 9pm news.
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12207 new cases confirmed
[vs. 18510 for the same day last week. 21784 the same day two weeks ago.]
[Tuesday a.m. (i.e. Monday) figures are traditionally the lowest of the week.]
47 out of 47 prefectures reported cases yesterday.
No new daily case records.
Nowhere with five digits
Quadruple figures ONLY IN TOKYO
32 prefectures in triple figures
14 prefectures in double figures
Tokyo on 1344
[vs. 2025 same day last week]
Osaka on 548 [vs. 884 same day last week]
[Tokyo has been down vs. same day previous week for 17 straight days now]
The number of positives at immigration testing was 141
[Oof, higher than 24 of the prefectures]
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The total of current active serious cases stands at 90, up 2 from the previous day.
24 deaths announced yesterday, for a total of 30597
Total recorded cases at 8832528
Recovered cases at 8496843 (around 31,000 recovered cases from the previous day)
Total active cases are at 305,088 (down around 19000 vs the previous day).
Percentage of active cases as a percentage of the grand total of cases is 3.45% (and 0.0025% of the total population of Japan)
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Here’s the graph for the year. You can see that after the Golden Week dip, numbers popped up a bit but have been on a gentle downward slope for 3 weeks.
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Chiba at 423 has had seven straight days of new case numbers being lower than the same day of the previous week.
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Chiba schools are gradually easing restrictions in schools.
Children here are seen milling around doing a serial pairwork exercise (like a “Find somebody who…” bingo thing).
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Music class has reinstated large group music performances.
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Once a week [month? I can’t remember], lunch is held facing each other.
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Osaka’s new case number was 548, down 330 on the same day last week.
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From Wednesday, Osaka will be reinstating its “Come to Osaka” campaign.
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There is a partial subsidy on travel expenses for tourists from within Osaka prefecture and surrounding prefectures.
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NMB48 ex-member and “talent” Asari Yoshida has been appointed Osaka’s tourism ambassador.
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The news also had a piece of Novavax vaccine.
Here is a piece of solid English signage.
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This mass vax center in Tokyo has started offering the Novavax vaccine, which was developed in the US and which has been adopted as the fourth type of vaccine approved for use in Japan.
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Guy who got Novavax jabbed: I heard that there aren’t so many side effects with this one, so I thought I’d try it.
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Like Pfizer, Moderna and AZ, Novavax sets about programming the immune system to deal with the virus’ spike proteins.
However, while these three use RNA messages to trigger production of the spike proteins in the body, the Novavax virus directly injects spike proteins that have been artificially produced in the lab.
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Here are the side effect stats for 1st and 2nd jabs (left and right) and fatigue and fever (top and bottom). The incidence of fever is considerably lower with Novavax.
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BTW 58.8% of the total population has been third jabbed as of yesterday’s govt. announcement.
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They got one of their experts on to big up the Novavax.
“Especially among young people, there have been cases where people have had a fever and had to take 2 or 3 days off work.”
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“So for people who have suffered with fevers etc. on their previous two shots,…”
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“..I think they will see a big merit (in having Novavax) for their third shot.”