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Governor issues warning as hospitals near capacity; other cities also log surge in cases
The surge in cases in Tokyo prompted Governor Yuriko Koike to issue a special year-end Covid-19 warning .PHOTO: REUTERS
PublishedDec 18, 2020, 5:00 am SGT
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TOKYO - Japan rewrote its one-day Covid-19 tally on Thursday (Dec 17) with at least 3,211 new cases, led by a record-busting 822 infections in Tokyo, prompting Governor Yuriko Koike to issue a special year-end Covid-19 warning .
The worsening situation comes despite Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga s statement on Nov 24 that the following three weeks were decisive in defeating the coronavirus .
Japanese media said the three-week period, which ended on Tuesday, has been a clear defeat for the government, whose muddled policies are blamed for the soaring cases. There has not been a single piece of data showing that the situation is moving in a positive direction, Dr Yoshihiro Yamaguchi, head of trauma and critical care at Kyorin University Hospital in Tokyo, told the Asahi Shimbun newspaper.
Yasutoshi Nishimura, the state minister in charge of economic revitalization, responds to questions on Dec. 16 at the Lower House Cabinet Committee. (Kotaro Ebara)
The “decisive” three-week period for bringing the COVID-19 situation under control ended, and the government has admitted defeat.
“Unfortunately, there has been no declining trend” in new infections, Yasutoshi Nishimura, the economic revitalization minister who is also the government’s point man in dealing with the novel coronavirus pandemic, said on Dec. 16, the end of that three-week period.
Government officials had said the period would be critical for halting the spread in novel coronavirus infections, and they deployed a concentrated package of measures. But the numbers around Japan have kept rising.