A website that estimates and posts the number of people infected with the new coronavirus nationwide and prefecture every day has been opened by the Japan corporation of the American pharmaceutical company Moderna.
The latest number of infected people nationwide is estimated to be about 2,4000, so we would like you to use the website while the total number of infected people has been grasped due to the transition to "Class 5" of the new corona.
The website was released by "Moderna Japan" this month, and based on data from approximately 4200,18 medical institutions nationwide registered in a private medical information database, the number of infected people nationwide and regionally estimated statistically under the supervision of experts is updated daily.
In addition, estimates of the number of infected people by age group and the percentage of positive people among those who have been tested "positivity rate" are also posted.
According to the data until the 1th, the number of infected people nationwide is estimated to be about 1,2 per day on average per week, and Moderna Japan says, "We believe that it is important to present the data in the form of the number of infected people that we have become accustomed to so far in order to correctly grasp the latest epidemic situation and act appropriately."
Associate Professor Yusuke Tsugawa of the University of California, Los Angeles, who supervised the data analysis, said, "By statistically processing the information in the database to show the number of infected people, we can obtain a large amount of data while reducing labor.