Japan crosses 100,000 COVID-19 cases, 9 months after first infection

People wearing face masks shop around at a secondhand book store in Tokyo on Thursday, Oct 29, 2020. TOKYO: Japan’s coronavirus cases have topped 100,000, nine months after the first case was found in mid-January, the health ministry said on Friday .

The country confirmed 808 new infections on Thursday, bringing the cumulative COVID-19 cases to 100,334, including 712 people who were on a cruise ship that was docked off a Japanese port earlier this year.About one-third of the cases come from Tokyo, where 221 cases were confirmed on Thursday, bringing a prefectural total to 30,677, with 453 deaths. Nationwide, Japan has more than 1,700 deaths.

Japan had a nationwide state of emergency in April and May, and experienced a less serious second wave in August, but has since been seeing a slight uptrend in new cases in northern Japanese prefectures, setting off concerns of a surge in the winter.READ: Japan's Shionogi readies COVID-19 vaccine for December trial: CEO

Experts have urged extra caution at dining and drinking parties and workplaces. According to health ministry data, nearly half of the new cases were in their 20s and 30s. Japan’s northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido this week raised a warning level after finding major clusters in urban entertainment districts.Experts on Thursday also urged caution in Tokyo where the daily count has fluctuated between the 100s and 200s.

Furthermore, this is a piece of inaccurate reporting as the Japanese government and the WHO has stated that the cases from the Princess Diamond cruise ship will not be included in the Japanese count. They haven’t reached 100000 yet

In the article, it says Japan declared state of emergency in the middle of this year. This is partly true, but if you’d look at the Japanese constitution, it is illegal for the Japanese government to enforce anything. What they did was to ask businesses to close momentarily

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