his blood oxygen level is only 92%. it is not good for you. so i put the mask to his mouth. and, "please keep it to keep you alive." so what'll happen now with his bill? oh, this is for the telephone bill! he's living alone, so he couldn't pay the telephone bill because of his very bad condition. so i've received it, and now i'm going to the convenience store to pay for it. it's the arrival of the delta variant here injapan that's led to this explosion of covid cases. if you look back to mid—july, there were around 1,500 new cases a day. by august, that had jumped to 6,000. now we're seeing the same with the seriously ill. at the end ofjuly, dr tashiro and his team were treating just one seriously ill person.