( Tokyo, 23rd July 2020 ) Japan has a four-day holiday from Thursday. The government only implemented a domestic tourism promotion program on Wednesday. It hit a record of 795 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in a single day. Tokyo added 366 new confirmed cases on Thursday. The number of cases has set a new record for a single day. Japanese media said that the epidemic was still dominated by the metropolitan area in early July, and it has clearly spread to the whole country.
Kyodo News reported that Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike disclosed the epidemic in Tokyo that day during an interview at the Metropolitan Government Building on Thursday. The Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK) reported that this was the first time since the outbreak of the epidemic that there were more than 300 cases in a single day, and it was also more than 100 cases in a single day for 15 consecutive days.
Physicians' Association urges not to cross counties
Toshio Nakagawa, the president of the Japanese Medical Association, said at a press conference on Wednesday that the 4-day holiday from Thursday should be positioned as a "tolerable 4 consecutive holidays", calling on Japanese people to avoid unnecessary and non-urgent outings, and not to move across counties. .
Tokyo added 238 new cases in a single day on Wednesday, and the cumulative number of cases exceeded 10,000, reaching 15,000. Osaka Prefecture added 121 cases on Wednesday, surpassing the 92 cases in a single day on April 9 during the "Declaration of Emergency Situations", a record high. In terms of age group, 52 cases were in their 20s, 19 cases were in their 30s, and 9 cases were in their 10s. The total number of cases under 40 accounted for about 70% of the total.
Aichi Prefecture added 64 cases in a single day on Wednesday, Saitama Prefecture added 62 cases in a single day, and Fukuoka Prefecture added 61 cases in a single day, all setting new highs since the local outbreak.
"Nihon Keizai Shimbun" reported that Shigeru Ominami, chairman of the Japanese government's epidemic response subcommittee, said that although there has not been an explosive spread, there are cases of increasing cases.
From the end of June to the beginning of July, the epidemic spread mainly in the metropolitan area (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, and Chiba), and it has clearly spread to the whole of Japan, and reached Osaka, Aichi, and Fukuoka on Wednesday. Locally, the new cases all set local records.
The government lifted the "Declaration of Emergency Situations" on May 25 and continued until June 19, urging people to avoid cross-border movement; but after June 19, the "mobile self-declaration" was lifted and it happened in a theater in Tokyo. Group infections, the movement of these infected people may be one of the reasons for the spread of the epidemic.
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