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Japan looks like it'll have a similar vaccination timeframe as Oz. I expect mine will be available somewhere around August/Sept, but - knowing Japan, possibly even October!
Our numbers have gone down a lot from Tokyo reaching over 6000 daily new infections in early January to between 270-350 this week. We also read that the higher numbers were overwhelming health authorities who were understaffed for contact tracing, and the numbers started dropping quite quickly - obviously due to less (or very little) contact tracing. Also - clinics doing private testing haven't been reported in the official numbers, so these numbers are still higher than the officially reported ones. The place to look is in the hospitals, and deaths. Japanese hospitals aren't equipped to take large numbers into ICU - at one point people with severe symptoms in hospital (ie - on oxygen and/or ventilators, etc) was getting close to 200, not 'a lot' by many countries' standards but enough here to overwhelm the medical system - at one point there were several thousand infected people on wait lists to get into hospital! Official deaths nation-wide are also down - there was around 100 a day at one point, today 50 was reported.
There's been a state of emergency since 7th January, which has seen bars/restaurants, etc closing by 8pm. (In late November they had already changed closing hours from 'very late' to 10pm). Several prefectures have lifted or about to lift their state of emergencies. Looks like Tokyo will extend for at least 2 more weeks. Personally it would be good if they keep the states of emergency everywhere for longer, however the good news is they are delaying a restart of the discounted domestic travel campaign, which is probably a big factor in the numbers rising in the first place (along with cooler weather keeping more people indoors).
Our numbers have gone down a lot from Tokyo reaching over 6000 daily new infections in early January to between 270-350 this week. We also read that the higher numbers were overwhelming health authorities who were understaffed for contact tracing, and the numbers started dropping quite quickly - obviously due to less (or very little) contact tracing. Also - clinics doing private testing haven't been reported in the official numbers, so these numbers are still higher than the officially reported ones. The place to look is in the hospitals, and deaths. Japanese hospitals aren't equipped to take large numbers into ICU - at one point people with severe symptoms in hospital (ie - on oxygen and/or ventilators, etc) was getting close to 200, not 'a lot' by many countries' standards but enough here to overwhelm the medical system - at one point there were several thousand infected people on wait lists to get into hospital! Official deaths nation-wide are also down - there was around 100 a day at one point, today 50 was reported.
There's been a state of emergency since 7th January, which has seen bars/restaurants, etc closing by 8pm. (In late November they had already changed closing hours from 'very late' to 10pm). Several prefectures have lifted or about to lift their state of emergencies. Looks like Tokyo will extend for at least 2 more weeks. Personally it would be good if they keep the states of emergency everywhere for longer, however the good news is they are delaying a restart of the discounted domestic travel campaign, which is probably a big factor in the numbers rising in the first place (along with cooler weather keeping more people indoors).
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