Japan's newly confirmed cases ranked first in the world for 3 consecutive weeks, with an increase of more than 250,000 for the first 10 days!

　　China News Service, August 11. According to Kyodo News, the number of new coronavirus cases in Japan hit a new high on the 10th, and exceeded 250,000 for the first time.

The new crown statistics of the World Health Organization (WHO) also show that the number of new infections in Japan exceeded 1.49 million in a week from the 1st to the 7th, the highest number in the world for three consecutive weeks.

Data map: People walk through a street in Tokyo's Shinjuku district.

　　On the 10th, 250,403 people were newly diagnosed with the new coronavirus in Japan, setting a new high for the number of new cases in a single day and exceeding 250,000 for the first time.

The previous maximum was more than 249,700 people on the 3rd.

The death toll reported on the 10th was 251.

　　In addition, according to WHO data, the number of new infections in Japan was as high as 1,496,968 in a week from the 1st to the 7th. Compared with 750,000 people in the United States and 710,000 people in South Korea, the number of new infections in Japan was about 700,000. 2 times as much.

In the same week, the global number of infections was 6.98 million, with Japan accounting for 21%.

　　Compared with the previous week, the number of new infections in the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, including Japan, increased by 29%.

This region was the only region to increase, as other regions successively decreased, accounting for the 3% increase in global infections.

　　On the other hand, the United States had the highest number of deaths in the same week, with 2,764.

Followed by Brazil 1445 people, Italy 1059 people, Japan 1002 people.

The global death toll fell 9% from last week to 14,563.

　　As countries gradually lift restrictions on movement related to the new crown, the number of cases where there is no need to provide a negative certificate when entering or leaving the country or using restaurants, etc., is increasing, and the actual number of tests is decreasing.

Therefore, the WHO is wary that the actual number of infections may be greater than the number of confirmed cases, and is worried that it may fall into a situation where new mutant strains cannot be quickly detected.