Japanese media reports on the new crown epidemic in Japan (NHK TV station in Japan) Overseas Network, December 28. According to Japan’s Kyodo News Agency on the evening of December 27, Japan added 483 new crown deaths that day. This is the first time that the number of deaths in Japan has exceeded 400 in a single day.
Japan added 208,235 confirmed cases on the 27th, an increase of 18,000 from a week ago. Since November, the rate of new deaths in a single day in Japan has been in the double digits or above 100. As Japan entered the eighth wave of the new crown epidemic, the infection situation deteriorated again. After December, there were 200 and 300 deaths in a single day several times.
Recently, medical resources in many places in Japan are in short supply. On the 27th, Miyazaki Prefecture independently issued the highest-level "Medical Emergency Declaration", asking people in the county not to go to high-risk areas of the epidemic. This is the first time the county has issued such an alert in 138 days. On the same day, Mie County stated that the occupancy rate of hospital beds in the county exceeded 50%, and it was confirmed for the first time that someone was infected with the Omicron mutant strain "BA.2.3.20". (Wang Shanning, Overseas Network)
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