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For the third day in a row, the number of new cases of SARS-CoV-2 virus infection in Japan exceeds 3,000 people.
In Japan, the daily incidence record of COVID-19 was broken: on December 25, 3,748 new cases of infection were registered in the country. Write about this The Japan Times.
More than 3,000 new cases of infection in the country are registered for the third consecutive day.
Since the beginning of the epidemic in Japan, more than 214 thousand people have been infected with the coronavirus, 3004 have died, 177.6 thousand patients have recovered, according to data from the US Johns Hopkins University.
Furthermore, the country has confirmed five cases of infection with a new strain of coronavirus found in the United Kingdom. All cases have recently traveled to the UK. They are now in quarantine.
An outbreak of coronavirus infection began in late 2019 in China. March 11, 2020 World Health Organization declared the spread of the coronavirus a pandemic.
The identification of a new type of coronavirus, hence the rate of spread of the disease in some parts of the UK, UK Health Minister Matt Hancock announced on December 15. By then, more than 1,000 cases of infection with a new type of virus had been confirmed in the country in 60 regions of the country.
Britain’s chief health doctor, British government advisor on medicine Chris Whitty spoke about the high rate of spread of a new type of coronavirus. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the new strain could be 70% more infectious. At the same time, according to Whitty, there is currently no evidence that the new strain of coronavirus causes a higher death rate.
In this regard, more than 20 countries have decided to end passenger traffic with the United Kingdom.
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