Japan MOH: 54 New Domestic COVID-19 Cases - 3 Additional Deaths

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While Japan hasn't reported the kind COVID-19 numbers that we've seen in South Korea, Italy, Iran, and a growing host of European nations - over the past week we've seen a noticeable spike in cases - with 284 new cases reported over the past 7 days. This represents a 60% jump in total cases in just one week. 

Over the same time period 5 patients have died, bringing Japan's total to 12 (an apparent CFR of 2.1% including asymptomatic positives). 

Some excerpts from today's report follows:

About outbreak of patients related to new type coronavirus (458-503 cases)

Today (March 10), the new coronavirus from Osaka, Saitama, Shizuoka, Aichi, Mie, Hyogo, Chiba, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Kyoto, Nara and Hokkaido Forty-six patients with associated infections, eight asymptomatic pathogen carriers, and three deaths were reported as follows:

With this announcement, there will be 567 domestic infections (503 patients, 64 asymptomatic pathogen carriers). In addition, one patient has been confirmed in airport quarantine so far, bringing the total to 568. In addition, there are 12 domestic deaths.

We will carry out proactive epidemiological investigations on this matter, including the identification of close contacts.

Overview

(1) Patients, asymptomatic pathogen carriers:

• Osaka: 15 patients, asymptomatic pathogen holders 3
• Saitama: 2 patients
• Shizuoka: 1 patient
• Aichi: 12 patients, asymptomatic pathogen holder 1 case
• Mie prefecture: 1 patient
• Hyogo prefecture: 7 patients, 1 case of asymptomatic pathogen carrier
• Chiba prefecture: 1 patient
• Tokyo: 2 patients, 1 case of asymptomatic pathogen holder
• Kanagawa prefecture: 1 patient, none symptoms pathogens holders 1 example
• Kyoto Prefecture: one patient
• Nara Prefecture: 1 example asymptomatic pathogen holders
• Hokkaido: 3 patients

(2) deaths:

• Kanagawa Prefecture : One fatal case
• Aichi Prefecture: (new patients one patient) deaths's 2 

Information from each local government 

* If the contents of the public documents of local governments do not conform to the ministry's publication standards, they will be published in accordance with the ministry's publication standards.

○ Osaka Prefecture
○ Saitama Prefecture
○ Shizuoka Prefecture
○ Aichi Prefecture
○ Mie Prefecture
○Hyogo prefecture 1 , Hyogo prefecture 2 , Hyogo prefecture 3 , Hyogo prefecture 4 , Hyogo prefecture 5
○ Chiba prefecture
○ Tokyo
○ Kanagawa prefecture
○ Kyoto prefecture
○ Nara prefecture
○ Hokkaido death case 1 , death case 2 , death case 3