The variety of new coronavirus circumstances is on the rise once more in Japan. Authorities confirmed greater than 500 infections on Wednesday for the primary time in two months.
Officials in Tokyo reported 76 new circumstances, topping 50 for the primary time since mid-October. That marked a week-on-week enhance for 12 days in a row.
Officials on the US Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, say 80 personnel examined constructive for the coronavirus. That is the best quantity reported on the bottom in a single day.
At the Marine Corps’ Camp Hansen within the southern prefecture of Okinawa, almost 300 folks have been confirmed to be contaminated to this point.
Japan’s international ministry believes 47 p.c of the samples are of the Omicron variant.
Currently solely Japanese nationals and returning international residents are being allowed into the nation. Anyone arriving from international locations or territories the place Omicron circumstances have been confirmed should quarantine for 3 to 10 days in designated services.
Health ministry officers confirmed 113 new Omicron circumstances amongst those that entered the nation between December 17 and 25.
Japan narrows definition of in-flight omicron shut contacts
Japan Times – Dec 28
Japan’s coverage on in-flight omicron shut contacts was introduced into line with the definition for different coronavirus infections on Tuesday — two rows in entrance of and behind the place the contaminated individual was sitting — amid issues that the central and native governments would run out of quarantine services for shut contacts.
Osaka arson suspect affected by extreme mind harm
Japan Times – Dec 28
Morio Tanimoto, the 61-year-old suspect in a lethal arson assault at a psychological well being clinic within the metropolis of Osaka earlier this month, suffered extreme mind harm within the incident, investigative sources stated Monday.