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Japan, where the Olympics were held amidst the corona virus, the number of confirmed cases per day has now exceeded 18,000 as the virus spreads after the tournament. With the increasing number of patients in Tokyo and the Japanese metropolitan area now, experts say it is a disaster.



Correspondent Yoo Seong-jae from Tokyo reported.



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Akihabara, Tokyo, is visited by many young people.



There was a long line late into the night in front of a private medical company that tests for corona infection.



The spread among young people is clear, and almost 4,000 people are infected almost every day.



[University student: (because it's vacation) I'm going to my hometown, but he told me to get a good infection test and come.]



Today (12th), the number of new confirmed cases in Tokyo exceeded 4,989, and Japan as a whole exceeded 18,000, the highest number since the corona crisis. recorded.



The number of confirmed cases is more than 10,000 for ten days in a row since the 3rd, before the closing of the Olympic Games.



Due to the explosion of infection, the bed occupancy rate in 16 metropolitan municipalities, including Tokyo, has exceeded 50% all at once, and 50,000 corona patients are recuperating at home instead of in hospitals.



Experts have come up with an analysis that if you consider the health care system, the situation is now at the level of a disaster.



[Wakita/Director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Japan: The (infection) has gotten quite serious in the metropolitan area and is already nearing a disaster situation.] The



Japanese government hastily declared a state of emergency in six local governments, including Tokyo, at the end of next month. We have also begun to consider ways to extend it to



In the midst of this, torch lighting events were held in various parts of Japan 12 days before the opening of the Paralympic Games, but there are many voices that it should be held without spectators in consideration of the Corona situation.



(Video coverage: Han Chul-min, Moon Hyun-jin, Video editing: Kim Ho-jin)