It seems like every day is bringing more bad news for Tokyo. According to Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the regular count of new cases of coronavirus has doubled in the past week. In addition, it came around 40 in the final days of March to 97 on Thursday and 89 on Fridays.
“Japan needs the courage to adjust, when we think we’re on the wrong track,” Iwata said. “Can we see Tokyo’s new New York City.”
Japan had 3,329 confirmed cases and 74 fatalities as of Friday.
“The start of the infection burst in Spain, France, Italy and New York City — was really like Tokyo right now,” Iwata said.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, for a city of 13.5 million, Tokyo had screened less than 4000 people. From 13.5 million nation only, the process of check went for 39,466 people.
In addition, the Japanese government gave a response. Its monitoring program is appropriate for high-risk cases and is suitably tailored.
“Testing people with a low risk of novel coronavirus will be a waste of time,” the Ministry of Health said. “We are telling people with such symptoms to stay home for a period.”
Turned Down for a Test
One of the patients, Issei Watanabe, felt so hard to breathe.
He is a 40-year-old-non smoker and in a good health before he infected the coronavirus. Suddenly, his symptoms got quickly on. Body aches, chills and no sense of smell or taste. Then, he got a fever abouve 40 degree Celcius. After he took a test, the result was positive.
“People don’t know what to do,” Watanabe said. “There is a huge lack of clear information. “Your life is in your hands. Stay home. Stay home, please. Don’t go out.”
Watanabe is anxious about the tens of millions of Japanese who are over 65. He says he’s going to recover, but others of the ageing community of Japan won’t.
No Lockdown
The situation within Japan does not merit declaring a state of emergency or enforcing a lockdown in Tokyo has been repeatedly mentioned by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
He said these drastic measures would further harm an economy that is still coping with the coronavirus extreme economic effects and the postponement of the summer Olympics in Tokyo 2020.
However, there is growing fear – within and outside the world – that the increasingly dire alerts from the government about the danger of spreading the virus may have reached many people too late.