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COVID-19 in Japan: 456 Deaths Reported in Single Day

by Colleen Fleiss on Jan 7 2023 8:48 PM
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The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo was 53, health officials said.

COVID-19 in Japan: 456 Deaths Reported in Single Day
Japan recorded 456 COVID-19 related deaths, an all-time high in just a single day in the country.
There were concerns that the COVID-19 infection and death numbers would only go up with the New Year festivities.

The country reported 245,542 coronavirus cases, up 18,638 from Thursday and Tokyo reported 20,720 new cases, down 15, reports Japan Today.

COVID-19 pandemic in Japan

According to Mainichi Japan, the death toll rose sharply since November with the onset of the eighth wave.

While the severity rate has dropped with the Omicron strain of the coronavirus, the variant's increased transmissibility means that infections have risen by an order of magnitude, the report mentioned.

The number of people dying from COVID-19 over the last three months in Japan is nearly 16 times higher than during the same period last year.

Over the four-month period from August 31 to December 27 this year, people in their 80s represented 40.8 percent of the deaths.

"Those in their 90s and above accounted for 34.7 percent, and those in their 70s made up another 17 percent. In total, people in these three age brackets accounted for 92.4 percent of the fatalities," the report mentioned.

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