China News Service, September 1. According to comprehensive foreign media reports, according to the statistics of the World Health Organization (WHO) on August 31, in the week from August 22 to 28, the number of new crown infections in Japan was 1,258,772.
Japan's Kyodo news agency said that the number of newly diagnosed new crowns in Japan has been the highest in the world for six consecutive weeks.
Data show that during the same period, the number of new coronavirus infections in South Korea was 740,000, and that in the United States was 570,000.
In addition, the number of new deaths from the new crown in Japan that week was 1,990, an increase of 23% from last week, second only to the United States (2,818), which ranks second in the world.
The data also showed that the number of new infections worldwide decreased by 16% from the previous week, and the overall number of deaths decreased by 13%.
According to the Associated Press, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that experts expect a surge in hospitalizations and deaths as winter in the northern hemisphere approaches and more dangerous variants of the new coronavirus may emerge.
According to the analysis of the genetic results in the WHO report, in the week from August 14 to 20, 78.2% were the subtype "BA.5" of the Ormicron strain.
This shows that BA.5, which Tedros called "the most contagious", has become the mainstream of the epidemic.