In Japan, Theres 520 new COVID deaths confirmed, it’s first time more than 500 deaths have been recorded in nine Japanese prefectures

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1. Note, the article is In Japanese language, feel free to comment, thanks

2. Translation:

   On 11 January, 7.30 pm, there’s 203,393 new cases of the new coronavirus were confirmed in Japan. The number of deaths was 520, exceeding 500, for the first time and the highest number ever recorded. The previous record high was 498 on 5 January. The number of deaths has remained in triple figures since 28 November 2022.

   The highest number of fatalities of the COVID-19 was confirmed on 11 January in Fukuoka (45). Aichi (32), Osaka (31) and Tokyo (29) followed. The nine prefectures of Japan with the highest number of deaths were Yamanashi, Shizuoka, Mie, Shiga, Ehime, Kochi, Fukuoka, Oita and Miyazaki. The number of new cases by prefecture was 16,772 in Tokyo, 15,918 in Aichi and 14,024 in Osaka.

   [Source (Asahi news)](https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASR1C6GZ0R1CUTIL009.html)

   [Source (Yahoo Japan)](https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/b2c4d34125e408695290d8643934cddc82837c33)

3. Its not good either way 🙁
   I am kinda curious why its so much higher than Korea… even taken population and cases into account!
   Korea: population 52mil, cases (7day avg) 65k/day, deaths ~50/day. 7day average hasn’t gone over 65 since spring.
   Japan: population 125mil, cases 168k/day, deaths ~350/day.

   Caseload is similar per capita, but Japan has 3x deaths per capita…
   Wonder if it has to do with vaccination rates, or fact korea was hit worse by initial omicron wave in March than Japan was.

4. As always there is no particularly insightful data – how many of these are death with covid rather than by covid? what was the vaccination status of the victims (0,1,2,3etc.)? how many deaths are in excess of the normal death rate? what are the ages?

5. Record number of deaths since the COVID outbreak, which is pretty alarming.

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7. I had covid twice already….