Sat 16 July 2022:
Japan‘s daily COVID-19 infections hit a record of more than 103,311.
Japan on Friday reported 97,788 new coronavirus cases, up 5,523 from Thursday. It was the first time since Feb 5 that the nationwide number topped 100,000.
Faced with a seventh COVID wave, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday urged the public to exercise maximum vigilance.
Shigeru Omi, the advisory panel head, has said the “new wave” is being fuelled by the BA.5 subvariant of Omicron, which is understood to be highly transmissible. However, he did not recommend reintroducing travel curbs in a meeting on Monday with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida
Surveys suggest an increasing number of Japanese support a policy of living with the virus and do not want the country’s borders to be closed again, though there is some latent anxiety about imported infections being brought in by foreigners.
Researchers at the Nagoya Institute of Technology have called for the government to reintroduce a quasi-state of emergency, which earlier saw bars and restaurants asked to close early and residents urged to avoid unnecessary travel, after running an AI-based simulation that predicted Tokyo would hit more than 13,000 cases a day by mid-August..
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