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- The death toll from COVID-19 in Japan tends to rise
- In the first 10 days of 2023, there were 3,145 deaths from COVID-19.
- About 97% of the deaths were people over the age of 60.
- Mainly due to the increase in outbreaks. and spread to the aged care center
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Japan’s NHK news agency reported the situation of COVID-19 deaths. in Japan in the past Since the outbreak of COVID-19 First time in Japan in January 2020. Up to January 10, 2023, there have been 60,411 cumulative deaths from COVID-19.
As of October 2022, the past Japan’s death toll from COVID-19 is 1,864 nationwide. and increased to 2,985 in November. and rose to 7,622 cases in December 2022.
In January 2023, only 10 days there were deaths from COVID-19. In Japan already 3,145 cases and the trend of deaths now. it is still a direction that continues to increase causing many parties to speculate that there may be deaths from COVID-19 in January 2023. in Japan at the level of nearly 10,000 cases
The elderly died the most
In the past 28 days (between December 7, 2022 and January 3, 2023), there have been deaths from COVID-19. In all of Japan, 5,825 cases can be divided by age group as
- Under 20 years 4 cases (0.07%)
- 20-29 years, 5 cases (0.09%)
- 30-39 years, 16 cases (0.27%)
- Age group 40 – 49 years, 35 cases (0.60%)
- Age group 50 – 59 years 97 cases (1.67%)
- Age group 60 – 69 years 296 cases (5.08%)
- Age group 70 – 79 years 996 cases (17.10%)
- Age group 80 – 89 years 2,398 cases (41.17%)
- Age 90 and over 1,974 cases (33.89%)
which, if included in the 60-year-old age group, accounted for 97.24% of the victims, an increase over the previous period At the level of 95.29%, the Japanese authorities estimate that The cause of the death that occurred It arises from the increase of infections and outbreaks in the elderly care centre. which causes a higher distribution in these risk groups
to reduce the mortality rate among the elderly it is necessary to reduce the epidemic as well as take other preventive measures, which in the past The two-dose COVID-19 booster vaccine has already been administered to the elderly population of about 62%, which represents over 22 million people.
Regarding the number of people who received the booster vaccine Two-strain vaccines in Japan are now about 46 million people, or 36.9%. Japan has made the booster available in different age groups from 12 years.
However, there has been an observation that death originally occurred. Most of them are caused by severe pneumonia. Due to the 2019 new strain of corona virus, but more vascular abnormality deaths were found among COVID-19 patients meanwhile, some died from myocarditis. Right now, some people have died because they weren’t treated with ventilators as requested by their relatives.
The death rate has already surpassed the previous wave.
for the COVID-19 outbreak in Japan Figures communicated by the Japanese authorities. still tends to increase. It is approaching the same level as the previous wave.
and many parts had predicted that The actual number of patients has already exceeded the number of patients in the previous wave. due to the relaxation measures in place And there is no rigorous testing as before.
However, the latest report yesterday (January 10, 2023) found 75,504 more COVID-19 patients, with 253 more deaths, down from the previous day.
Twindemic surveillance available
In addition to the COVID-19 epidemic situation in Japan is still at a high level. Japan also continues to face flu outbreaks that are likely to increase. who is addicted to COVID-19 and flu at the same time As a result, patients have more severe symptoms.
that the Japanese official Plans to reduce the severity of COVID-19 drop to level 5, just like the flu But not many experts disagree. Why the situation is still worrying and worrying from the death rate which is still higher than the flu, including being seriously ill
