How Japan became a Covid success story as daily cases drop below 100

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How Japan became a Covid success story as daily cases drop below 100

 

Via AP news wire

Fri, 22 October 2021, 8:21 PM

 

 

Almost overnight, Japan has become a stunning, and somewhat mysterious, coronavirus success story.

Daily new COVID-19 cases have plummeted from a mid-August peak of nearly 6,000 in Tokyo with caseloads in the densely populated capital now routinely below 100, an 11-month low.

The bars are packed, the trains are crowded, and the mood is celebratory, despite a general bafflement over what, exactly, is behind the sharp drop.

Japan, unlike other places in Europe and Asia has never had anything close to a lockdown, just a series of relatively toothless states of emergency.

Some possible factors in Japan's success include a belated but remarkably rapid vaccination campaign, an emptying out of many nightlife areas as fears spread during the recent surge in cases, a widespread practice, well before the pandemic, of wearing masks and bad weather in late August that kept people home.

But with vaccine efficacy gradually waning and winter approaching, experts worry that without knowing what exactly why cases have dropped so drastically, Japan could face another wave like this summer, when hospitals overflowed with serious cases and deaths soared — though the numbers were lower than pre-vaccination levels.

Many credit the vaccination campaign, especially among younger people, for bringing infections down. Nearly 70 percent of the population is fully vaccinated.

“Rapid and intensive vaccinations in Japan among those younger than 64 might have created a temporary condition similar to herd-immunity,” said Dr. Kazuhiro Tateda, a Toho University professor of virology.

Tateda noted that vaccination rates surged in July to September, just as the more infectious delta variant was spreading fast.

He cautioned, however, that breakthrough infections in the U.S., Britain and other places where inoculations began months earlier than in Japan show that vaccines alone are not perfect and efficacy gradually wears off.

Japan’s vaccinations started in mid-February, with health workers and the elderly first in line. Shortages of imported vaccines kept progress slow until late May, when the supply stabilized and daily inoculation targets were raised to above 1 million doses to maximize protection before the July 23-Aug. 8 Olympics.

 

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Though some speculated that the drop in cases might be due to less testing, Tokyo metropolitan government data showed the positivity rate fell from 25% in late August to 1% in mid-October, while the number of tests fell by one-third. Masataka Inokuchi, the Tokyo Medical Association deputy chief, said falling positivity rates show infections have slowed.

 

https://sg.yahoo.com/news/japan-became-covid-success-story-091414511.html

 

[Bigbird]

 

 

Japan not even in Top 10.  

 

[Bigbird]

 

Even our jiak liao bee minsters are paid more then rest!

[Huat Zai]

Nippon ijn scare die and not stupid enough to trust what their ah gong tell them. 61% believe their glorious leaders, think vaccine makes them bulletproof.

[socrates469bc]

4 hours ago, Bigbird said:

an emptying out of many nightlife areas as fears spread during the recent surge in cases, a widespread practice, well before the pandemic, of wearing masks and bad weather in late August that kept people home.

 

this is the reason.

 

wahahahahahaha

[Bigbird]

29 minutes ago, socrates469bc said:

 

this is the reason.

 

wahahahahahaha

 

How different from Sinkingpore?

[Bigbird]

3 hours ago, Huat Zai said:

Nippon ijn scare die and not stupid enough to trust what their ah gong tell them. 61% believe their glorious leaders, think vaccine makes them bulletproof.

 

Its not that Japon afraid of death.  

 

They are afraid of cultural shaming!   

[Huat Zai]

1 minute ago, Bigbird said:

 

Its not that Japon afraid of death.  

 

They are afraid of cultural shaming!   

I work for Nippon bastar.. *cough* jin before, they really scare die, because their superiors have a habit of telling their ginnas go seppuku to cover their own backside. When you live in constant fear of that, you will constant want to suck up to your bosses, and never ever trust authority.

[Bigbird]

10 minutes ago, Huat Zai said:

I work for Nippon bastar.. *cough* jin before, they really scare die, because their superiors have a habit of telling their ginnas go seppuku to cover their own backside. When you live in constant fear of that, you will constant want to suck up to your bosses, and never ever trust authority.

 

The superiors in traditionally run companies, likes to abuse their position and publicly shame the subordinates.