(ANSA) - TOKYO, 04 DEC - Since the opening of schools in Japan in June of this year, about 3,300 primary and secondary school pupils have contracted the coronavirus, a figure that has seen a surge in the last three months.
This is what is reported in the online edition of Mainichi Shimbun, which publishes data from the Ministry of Education and Culture, highlighting that 13% of students were infected at school, while 55% contracted the disease outside the institutions or in their homes.
The comparison with the government data at the end of August, equal to 1,166 cases, indicates an almost tripled number in the wake of the sudden rise in positivity at national level.
The country is confronted with what medical experts call the 'third wave' of the disease, and although the virulence of the pandemic has been more reduced than in European and US countries, the virus has triggered a 'pink alert' situation in Osaka in recent days. .
The third metropolitan center in Japan is in fact reaching the filling coefficient of 70% of the beds in hospitals for Covid patients, a threshold considered critical.
The prefecture is ready to ask residents to avoid unnecessary travel to other regions, and to older people not to leave their homes for services that are not essential.
To date, Japan has recorded nearly 156,000 cases of coronavirus infections, with 2,261 reported deaths.
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