COVID-19 tracker: Japan logs over 80,000 cases and 219 deaths

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Japan logged 81,621 new COVID-19 circumstances Saturday and 219 deaths because the each day variety of fatalities remained close to a file excessive.

Tokyo confirmed 13,516 infections, an increase from the 11,765 reported Feb. 12, the metropolitan authorities stated, although a nationwide vacation on Feb. 11 could have been an element within the low numbers reported every week in the past.

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The tally marked the primary week-on-week rise for the capital since Feb. 8, NHK reported.

The variety of COVID-19 sufferers with extreme signs beneath the metropolitan authorities’s standards got here to 87, up by seven from the day past. A complete of 27 deaths had been recorded, all of them in folks of their 70s or older.

The common variety of circumstances reported over the earlier week got here to 14,824.7, down from 16,350.4 every week earlier.

Elsewhere, Osaka Prefecture logged 12,451 circumstances, up from 6,746 every week in the past, and 31 deaths, whereas neighboring Hyogo Prefecture logged 4,808 circumstances and 15 deaths. Hokkaido reported 2,797 circumstances and 9 deaths and Chiba Prefecture noticed 4,468 circumstances and 10 deaths. Aichi Prefecture noticed 5,751 circumstances and 24 deaths.

Whereas the height of the omicron-induced wave seems to have handed and there are indicators the rollout of booster photographs is accelerating, the nation’s testing capability stays stretched and concern stays over the pressure on native well being care programs.