According to Hong Kong Wen Wei Po, artist Barbie Hsu traveled to Japan during the Spring Festival, due to influenza combined with pneumonia passed away in Japan, making the Japanese influenza epidemic of great concern.
Japan this winter suffered a flu epidemic outbreak, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) estimates that since last September, the cumulative number of patients has exceeded 9.5 million people. Currently, hospital beds in Japan are in short supply, and there is a shortage of drugs in clinics and pharmacies.
According to the MHLW data, the influenza wave began to further intensify last Christmas, in the last week of December, more than 310,000 people fell ill, an increase of about 100,000 people week by week, the 10th consecutive week of the growth trend, the highest since 1999 since the beginning of the statistics record. In addition, the average number of influenza cases at medical institutions in Japan reached a high of 64.39, with the average number of cases exceeding 30 in almost all prefectures.
The latest data show that in the week of January 20 to 26, medical institutions reported an average of 11.06 people with influenza, a decrease of 7.32 people compared to the previous week, showing a decreasing trend for two consecutive weeks, and all 47 prefectures in Japan, influenza outbreaks slowed down compared to the previous week, and all of them are lower than the standard of 30 people who issued influenza alerts. The total number of patients seen during the week was nearly 55,000, a decrease of about 36,000 from the previous week, with an estimated 386,000 patients nationwide. The cumulative number of patients for the flu season since Sept. 2 last year through this week is estimated to be about 9,523,000 people.
MHLW said that although the peak of the influenza epidemic may have passed, it urges people to continue to take precautionary measures to avoid infection.
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