The cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 patients in Japan exceeded 2 million, and the number of people soared by one million in 5 months

Source: Overseas Network

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According to Japan's "Asahi Shimbun" news on January 20, as of the 20th, the cumulative number of new crown patients in Japan exceeded 2 million. Japan confirmed its first COVID-19 patient in January of the previous year (2020) to more than 1 million confirmed cases in August last year (2021), taking 1 year and 7 months. It took just over 5 months to increase to 2 million people.

Japanese media said that affected by the Olmi kerong strain, Japan's new crown patients have soared since the beginning of this year. In a one-month period last December, about 6,600 new patients were added, and between January 1 and 19, the number of new patients increased to 246,000. The average daily number of new patients in December last year has dropped to less than 100, but since January 12, the number of new patients has exceeded 10,000 per day, and on the 19th, it exceeded 40,000 for the first time.

The Japanese government has decided to apply additional "key measures such as prevention of spread" to 13 prefectures including Tokyo, but the sixth wave of the epidemic has spread explosively, and it is impossible to foresee the extent to which the number of infected people will increase. (Overseas Network Wang Shanning)