By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews
The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced today (computer translated) the first COVID-19 death in the country. The victim, a woman in her 80s from Kanagawa Prefecture, presented at the hospital with fatigue on January 22.
She was later admitted with pneumonia and her condition deteriorated. She was tested for the novel coronavirus which came back positive today, the same day she died.
She had no history of overseas travel.
This is the first COVID-19 death in Japan and the third outside China (Hong Kong and the Philippines are the others). To date, Japan has reported 28 total cases.
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Japanese Abe Govt had prioritized revenue from Chinese travelers and consideration to Chinese Govt than citizen’s health and safety.
Such Govt of host country of Olympics 2020 had restricted range of Corona virus inspection with considering influence to tourism and Olympics.
It is only “person who came from Wuhan” and “person who spent time with person who came from Wuhan”.
This policy had increased many latent patients in Japanese society.
Even people who feel subjective symptom could not inspect that they are Corona virus carrier or not by Abe Govt’s policy.
therefore,”official” number of Corona virus patients in Japan is understated.