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Japan surpassed 14,000 today (26th). According to an analysis, the number of infected people has not been revealed, so it is actually 10 times more likely. However, Abe's wife revealed a photo of a group trip without wearing a mask.

I am a correspondent to Yoo Sung-jae, Tokyo. 

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Nihon Keizai, who predicted that the current number of confirmed persons in Japan is the tip of the iceberg, said Nishiura, a professor at Hokkaido University, who is in charge of numerical analysis at the Corona 19 expert meeting of the Japanese government. Reported.

Professor Nishiura also analyzed that the number of new infections in some municipalities is not increasing significantly because the number of infected people exceeds the number that can be tested per day.

However, 72 people were confirmed today, and it was evaluated that the effect of restraint was gradually appearing in Tokyo, where new confirmed patients fell into two places on the 13th.

In the midst of this, a weekly magazine released photos of Abe's wife, Mrs. Akie, who visited a shrine in southern Oita on the 15th of last month.

Prime Minister Abe said on the 17th that Ms. Akie's travel did not violate the dense, close, closed, so-called 'three mil' evasion principle, but

[Abe / Japan Prime Minister (past 17)): The request was made on March 28th, and (the wife) did not go sightseeing other than visiting the shrine.]

At that time, Ms. Akie was found to have visited the shrine with dozens of people without wearing a mask.
It is expected that this will be a serious bad news for the Abe regime, which faces an emergency with falling approval ratings in the face of rising public fatigue ahead of the third week of the emergency declaration.

(Video coverage: Chulmin Han, Video editing: Oh-young Oh)