[Japon] Tokyo’s excess deaths far higher than COVID-19 count, data shows

Auteurs : Akira Maemura, Nikkei social security editor, and Sora Takahashi, Nikkei staff writer

Production : Nikkei

Diffusion : site de Nikkei Asian Review

Date : 25 mai 2020

Lack of testing and delayed numbers take blame for possible undercount

The Japanese capital may have suffered more than 200 excess fatalities from pneumonia and other causes early in the outbreak, possibly dwarfing the period’s official coronavirus death count of 16.

Source : Akira Maemura, Sora Takahashi, « Tokyo’s excess deaths far higher than COVID-19 count, data shows », Nikkei Asian Review, 25/05/2020. URL : https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Tokyo-s-excess-deaths-far-higher-than-COVID-19-count-data-shows (consulté le 25/05/2020)

version japonaise:

(社会保障エディター) 前村聡, 高橋そら, « コロナ感染死、把握漏れも「超過死亡」200人以上か – 東京23区2～3月　必要な統計公表遅く、対策左右も », 日本経済新聞, 24/05/2020. URL : https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXMZO59508030U0A520C2NN1000/ (consulté le 25/05/2020)

Photo « à la une » : Tokyo officially recorded 16 deaths from coronavirus in the five weeks starting Feb. 17, potentially undercounting by 50 to 60 deaths a week over that period. © Kei Higuchi

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