Japan's covid-19 death toll has exceeded 20,000 this year

According to Japan's Asahi Shimbun, as of the 11th, the cumulative number of deaths from new crown pneumonia in Japan has exceeded 20,000. Affected by the Omikejun strain, the epidemic spread sharply in Japan, with the average number of deaths per day surging since the beginning of this year (2022).

After the fifth wave of COVID-19 in Japan in the summer of 2021, the infection situation has stabilized, and after November 2021, the number of deaths has been controlled within ten figures for consecutive days, and in some days it has even been zero. Since January 2022, however, the outbreak has spread again and the death toll has been increasing. On January 14, japan's COVID-19 deaths reached double digits again after about two months, and the number has since increased significantly. On February 4, the number of COVID-19 deaths in Japan exceeded 100 after about eight months, and the number exceeded 150 from the 8th to the 10th.

(Original title: "Japan's new crown death toll has exceeded 20,000 this year' surge")