It's jaw-dropping! Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare blew up statistics for new crown patients relying on "hand calculation"
[Global Times reporter Xing Xiaojing] The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan blew up statistics on the number of confirmed patients with new crown pneumonia by "hand counting." Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga stated that "since the epidemic, it has been counting by hand."
This operation made the outside world "stunned."
According to a report from the Japan Jiji News Agency on the 18th, at the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives on the 17th, the Minister of Health of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Director-General Masahim, answered the question "How does the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare count the number of new crown patients nationwide?" , The outsourcing company of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare will look up the published data from the official websites of 47 prefectures and prefectures, "look with the eyes", and then "calculate" the number of confirmed patients with their hands.
Zheng Lin also claimed that the death toll and the information on other infected patients were calculated "using the same method."
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said, “I know that statistics have been used this way since the outbreak of the epidemic.” The news shocked the Japanese people and became a hot topic on social media.
Japanese netizens have expressed on Twitter that "Japan is still in the Edo period" and "Does it mean to use an abacus to calculate by hand?"
In fact, in addition to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, "hand calculation" is also particularly popular with Japanese police.
Regardless of any form of criminal activity, such as statistical crimes or monthly crime status, the Japanese police all rely on "hand calculation" and "hand calculation" every year.
The backward statistical method has caused the Japanese government to be criticized by public opinion, and the public believes that the "hand-calculated" data is not credible.
Yoshihide Suga has vigorously promoted Japan's digital reform since he came to power. Some netizens joked about this, saying that learning to use computer tabulation software and bidding farewell to "hand calculation" may be the first step in reform.