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Ministry: 80% of COVID-19 deaths in Japan came after November : The Asahi Shimbun
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Rapid circulation of virus variants in Japan alarms health experts : The Asahi Shimbun
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This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. (Alissa Eckert, MSMI; Dan Higgins, MAMS. Provided by Center for Disease Control and Prevention)
A total of 271 COVID-19 cases involving variants of the novel coronavirus had been confirmed around Japan as of March 9, more than quadruple the figure from a month earlier, the health ministry said.
The cases had been reported in 21 prefectures, including Tokyo, ministry officials said March 10.
The ministry confirmed the number and the variants by collecting cases that the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) and other institutions conducted genomic analyses on.
An electron microscope image of the novel coronavirus (Provided by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
Japan is a long way from achieving herd immunity against the novel coronavirus, according to the health ministry.
The results of antibody testing for COVID-19 as of December showed all areas covered by the study with ratios under 1 percent.
Achieving herd immunity against an illness requires that between 60 to 70 percent of the population develop some form of immunity, either through contracting the disease or being vaccinated.
But the results released Feb. 5 by the health ministry for a second antibody study showed the ratios to be 0.91 percent in Tokyo, 0.58 percent in Osaka, 0.54 percent in Aichi, 0.19 percent in Fukuoka and 0.14 percent in Miyagi.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announces at a government task force meeting on Dec. 14 dealing with the novel coronavirus pandemic that the Go To Travel program will be suspended across the entire nation. (Kotaro Ebara)
Ailing approval ratings, not the sickness spreading among the population, prompted Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s abrupt decision to suspend his long-protected Go To Travel campaign over the year-end holiday period, sources said.
Suga had stubbornly refused to heed the advice of health experts to curtail or suspend the Go To Travel tourism promotion program after new COVID-19 cases started rising around the nation.
Not only had Suga pushed the program, but his close associates also insisted that no evidence existed that the campaign was directly causing an increase in new infections.
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