The death toll has increased by more than 100 for 4 consecutive days! In this country, nearly 1 million people have been diagnosed in a week! The government has decided to…

Source: CCTV Finance

The current round of the new crown epidemic in Japan is severe, and many places have recently reported new cases on a single day. The number of new confirmed cases of the new crown continues to refresh the record. The Japanese government said on July 29 that it still does not plan to take nationwide epidemic prevention restrictions.

The research team led by Professor Akira Hirata of Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan predicts that Tokyo may usher in the current round of epidemic peak around August 6, By then, the average daily number of newly confirmed cases in the 7-day period will reach approximately 39,000, more than double the previous peak of 18,000. Tokyo added 36,814 new cases on the 29th.

Japan’s newly confirmed cases exceeded 220,000 on the 29th, and the daily increase of more than 200,000 cases for 3 consecutive days; 122 new deaths nationwide on the 29th, and the daily increase of more than 100 deaths for 4 consecutive days .

Japan’s economic activity has begun to suffer due to employee absenteeism due to infection, and some rail and bus companies have had to reduce vehicle frequency.

Japan’s healthcare system is under increasing pressure as infections surge. According to the summary data of the Cabinet Secretariat, as of the 27th, 19 of the 47 prefectures and prefectures across the country have used more than 50% of hospital beds for the treatment of new crown patients.

One of the salient features of the current round of the epidemic in Japan is that there are many infected children. According to the data released by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare on the 28th, in the week ending on the 26th, there were more than 340,000 new confirmed cases of the new crown under the age of 10 in Japan, accounting for about 30% of all infected people. , almost double the number from the previous week.

The World Health Organization reported on the 27th that In the week ending on the 24th, about 6.6 million new confirmed cases of the new crown worldwide, of which the confirmed cases in Japan There are more than 969,000 cases, the most in the world.

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