Japanese survey: 7% of Tokyo people say they have symptoms similar to new crown virus infection
[Global Times Comprehensive Report] A survey made Japanese society take a sigh of relief! According to a recent survey, among more than 60,000 respondents in Tokyo, 7.1% said they had symptoms similar to infection with the new crown virus.
According to the Asahi Shimbun report on March 31, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in cooperation with the real-time communication software LINE, conducted a survey of LINE users in Tokyo and neighboring areas during March 27-30, and found that more than 60,000 people in Tokyo Of the respondents, 7.1% said they had symptoms of at least one new coronavirus infection, including high fever and severe cough.
According to the report, although the respondent's symptoms such as high fever and cough are not confirmed, but based on this proportion, the potential infection base can reach more than 4,500, which is much higher than the 443 confirmed diagnoses currently announced in Tokyo. On March 31, LINE also launched a survey of 83 million users across Japan to help the government identify infected people and regions. On the same day, Governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike, briefed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the situation and developments in Tokyo. She said the situation was urgent and the Prime Minister needed to decide as soon as possible whether to declare the country into a state of emergency. (Feng Guochuan)