COVID Cases Continue to Decline in Japan

GIKorea | February 25, 2022 | Japan | 3 Comments

Daily COVID cases in South Korea continue to rise, but over in Japan they have now fallen to less than 70,000 from their peak of over 100,000:

Tokyo confirmed another 14,567 people had contracted COVID-19 on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022. (Aaron Kidd/Stars and Stripes)

The coronavirus continued to infect tens of thousands of people across Japan on Wednesday, even though new case numbers overall are falling week after week.
Tokyo confirmed another 14,567 people had contracted COVID-19 on Wednesday, public broadcaster NHK reported. That’s about 3,100 more people than Tuesday and the highest one-day count since 16,129 on Friday.
However, Wednesday’s tally is 2,764 less than the count on Feb. 16, according to metropolitan government data online.
Japan on Tuesday reported a pandemic one-day record number of COVID-19-related deaths, 322, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. Another 69,447 people across the country tested positive.
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