[이데일리 권오석 기자] It has been confirmed that Japan’s daily confirmed cases of COVID-19 surpassed 70,000 for the first time.
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According to NHK on the 26th, there were 71,633 new confirmed cases in Japan as of 7:30 pm that day. It is the highest record for two days in a row following the 62,613 new cases the day before.
In the past week including this day, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Japan increased by 379,650.
The Japanese government has decided to apply the ‘prior measures such as epidemic prevention’, which is currently being applied to 16 metropolitan governments including Tokyo, to 18 regions, including Hokkaido, from the 27th. This means that 34 of the 47 metropolitan governments across the country are implementing quarantine measures comparable to emergencies.
Government authorities may request reductions in business hours for restaurants, etc. in areas where the key measures have been applied, and may decide whether to provide alcoholic beverages at the discretion of the head of the regional government.
In addition, a group of experts advising the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare recently analyzed that 97% of confirmed cases in Japan were suspected of being infected with Omicron.
According to the ‘Results of a Study on the Efficacy of the Corona 19 Vaccine’ announced today by a research team composed of Nagasaki University and others, the effective rate of preventing symptoms from appearing was 89% between July and September of last year, but the results of the investigation on the 1st and 21st of this month It was only 52%, down 37 percentage points. The research team analyzed that the delta mutation was replaced by the omicron mutation or the time elapsed after inoculation was the cause of the decrease in the effect.