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More than 8,000: this is the number of Covid-19 cases recorded in Japan this Saturday.
An almost ridiculous figure for other comparable economies (France currently has 300,000 cases per day), an electric shock for the Archipelago which was no longer used to such a rate of infections since September.
In recent weeks, Japan and many of its observers had hoped that it would pass between the drops of the Omicron variant.
"The number of Covid-19 cases collapses and no one understands why"
, headlined the
Washington Post
two more weeks ago.
This apparent state of exception seems to be over.
In the long term, Japan now ranks among the "passable" students of Northeast Asia with 14.8 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants against 0.35 for China, 3.6 for Taiwan and 11.5 for China. South Korea.
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