Japanese government new crown expert: Japan has entered the "seventh wave of epidemic" BA.5 is becoming the mainstream strain

Visitors play in Asakusa Temple in Tokyo, Japan (Data Map)

Overseas Network, July 12th. According to the Japanese Kyodo News on the 11th, the leader of the Japanese government's new crown virus infection team said on the same day that the recent increase in Japanese infected people in Japan undoubtedly meant that the country had entered the "seventh wave of epidemic." Regarding whether to prevent the epidemic from spreading restrictions, he said that "it is not necessary at this stage."

There were 37,143 newly confirmed cases in Japan on the 11th, which were 2.2 times the case last Monday, and the most cases in Tokyo were 6,231 cases. Regarding the recent trend of a single -day case increase, the end stated that the reason may be that the mainstream new crown strains in Japan are evolving into a more easily spread Omikon poison BA.5, and said that the immunity obtained through vaccination has gradually declined gradually declined It is also one of the reasons. He also said that the occasion of high risk of infection is "no different" compared to before, so it is believed that there is no need to take restrictions at this stage.

The Ministry of Health and Labor and Ministry of Welfare of Japan was worried that because BA.5 was considered to have a high ability of immunization and escape, if the infection spread among the elderly in Japan, it may lead to surge in severe patients as severe patients when they are "sixth waves of epidemic." (Overseas network Zhang Ni)

- END -