Tokyo
Is there a natural immunity of the Japanese to Covid-19? This was the question that the local and foreign media were seriously asking a month ago in the face of the low number of deaths and cases that the Archipelago posted compared to comparable societies. With 156 cases and 1 death on December 17, he could at first sight believe himself out of trouble. Japan was drawing the fruits of its flash vaccination campaign there in the summer, sometimes injecting 1 million doses a day into a people never as impressive as when it is totally mobilized towards a single goal. The vaccination rate reached a record level of 79% of the population, including children. Japan was not the only one to give in to recklessness.
“Omicron cases soar globally, but Covid cases plummet in Japan, and no one understands why
,” headlined the
Washington Post
.
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The myth vanished on Tuesday with the announcement of the record number of more than 32,000 contaminations.
This figure may seem ridiculous…
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