Japan Logs 27.5 M. New COVID-19 Cases in 2022

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Tokyo, Dec. 31 (Jiji Press)--Japan confirmed a total of 27,504,428 new COVID-19 cases in 2022, up 18.4-fold from the previous year, as highly infectious omicron variants raged.

New fatal cases totaled 39,158, up 2.6 times.

Japan reported its first novel coronavirus case in January 2020. That year, about 230,000 people were infected.

In 2021, 1.49 million people contracted the disease as the delta variant spread.

The first of the omicron variants began to spread early in 2022. In summer, the daily count of positive cases hit a record high of over 260,000 during the seventh wave of infections in summer.

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