Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, September 1 (Reporter Hua Yi) According to the statistics of the Japan Broadcasting Association TV station, as of 20:30 on the 1st (19:30 Beijing time), Japan had 630 new confirmed cases of new crown on that day, and a total of 69,151 confirmed cases ; There were 13 new deaths and a total of 1313 deaths.
Among them, 170 newly confirmed cases were newly confirmed in Tokyo that day, and the number of newly confirmed cases in a single day for 8 consecutive days reached 3 digits, and a total of 20,987 cases were confirmed.
The Japanese government's new crown virus countermeasures subcommittee analyzed that the Japanese epidemic had reached its peak at the end of July and showed a slow downward trend in August.
However, the number of newly confirmed cases in August is still about 32,000, which is the largest number of new cases in a single month so far, especially in the first ten days of August, with more than 1,000 new cases in a single day.
Statistics released by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan on the 1st showed that 57,823 of the confirmed cases in Japan have been discharged from hospital or ended quarantine. The cumulative number of people tested by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is about 1.491 million, which is an increase from the previous day. About 24,000.
Starting from the 1st, in principle, Japan allows foreigners with Japanese residency status to return to Japan, provided that a negative test for the new coronavirus within 72 hours before departure is obtained.