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COVID-19 pandemic in Japan
ongoing COVID-19 viral pandemic in Japan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The COVID-19 pandemic was first confirmed to have spread to Japan in January 2020.[2] Numbers have been recorded in each of the 47 prefectures except for Iwate. The country has seen over 10,000 sick people.
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COVID-19 pandemic in Japan | |
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![]() Confirmed cases per million residents by prefecture[lower-alpha 1] | |
Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Japan |
First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
Index case | Kanagawa Prefecture |
Arrival date | 16 January 2020 (4 years, 5 months and 5 days) |
Confirmed cases | 16,047[1] |
Active cases | 6,767[1] |
Recovered | 8,920[1] |
Deaths | 678[1] |
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