Overseas Network, December 28. According to Japan’s Kyodo News Agency reported on the evening of December 27, Japan reported 483 new deaths from COVID-19 that day. This is the first time Japan's death toll has exceeded 400 in a single day.

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Japanese media reports on the new crown epidemic in Japan (Japanese NHK TV station)

Overseas Network, December 28th According to Japanese Kyodo News Agency reported on the evening of December 27, Japan added 483 new cases of new crown deaths that day. This is the first time Japan's death toll has exceeded 400 in a single day.

Japan added 208,235 confirmed cases on the 27th, an increase of 18,000 cases from a week ago. Since November, the proportion of new deaths in a single day in Japan has been in double digits or more than 100 cases. As Japan entered the eighth wave of the COVID-19 epidemic, the infection situation worsened again. After December, there were 200 and 300 deaths in a single day several times.

Recently, many places in Japan have been experiencing a shortage of medical resources. On the 27th, Miyazaki Prefecture separately issued the highest-level "Medical Emergency Declaration", asking people in the county not to travel to high-risk areas. This is the first time in 138 days that the county has issued such an alert. On the same day, Mie Prefecture said that the hospital bed occupancy rate in the county exceeded 50%, and it was confirmed for the first time that someone was infected with the Omicron variant "BA.2.3.20". (Overseas Network Wang Shanning)

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