China News Service, Tokyo, November 5th. According to the statistics of the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK), as of 20:30 on the 5th local time, 1045 new cases of new coronary pneumonia were confirmed in Japan that day, and the number of confirmed cases has been increasing since August 21. Thousands of cases.
Data map: Japan under the epidemic.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Lu Shaowei
So far, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Japan has risen to 105,079, and the death toll is 1,806.
Among them, Tokyo had 269 new confirmed cases on the 5th, with a total of 31,893 confirmed cases. Japan is the region with the most confirmed cases, followed by Osaka Prefecture and Kanagawa Prefecture.
On that day, there were 119 new confirmed cases in Hokkaido, the day with the largest number of new confirmed cases so far, and the day when the number of new confirmed cases exceeded 100 for the first time.
This is related to the cluster of epidemics that have recently appeared in medical institutions in Hokkaido.
Of the 119 new cases on the 5th, 78 cases of infection were unknown.
The Japanese government stated that it will send experts to Hokkaido to jointly respond to the epidemic.
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