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The period can be renewed.The state of emergency was lifted for all of Japan on May 25th, 2020. "I am not sure how such a virus could be restricted to Asia," says Professor Kenji Shibuya, director of Public Health at Kings College, London and a former senior adviser to the government. Yet, for the year as a whole, it is possible that overall deaths will be down on 2019. The period can be renewed. "Japan's mild lockdowns seems to have had a real lockdown effect. All Rights Reserved. "I think that probably worked better than just telling people to stay at home," Dr Jindai says. Copyright © Japan National Tourism Organization. Not Covid-19, but something similar that could have left behind "historical immunity". ""How do you reduce contact between infected and uninfected people...? Professor Shibuya does not discount the possibility of regional differences in immunity or genetic susceptibility to Covid. He thinks countries that have done well in the fight against Covid, have done so for the same reason - they succeeded in dramatically reducing transmission.Japanese people began wearing face masks more than 100 years ago during the 1919 flu pandemic and they've never really stopped. The government set up a nationwide network of public health centres to identify new infections and report them to the health ministry.

These discoveries led to the government launching a nationwide campaign warning people to avoid the "Three Cs". For further information about hospitals and insurance, please visit the links below.JNTO will switch its weibo account from @Japan Safe Travel to Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) operates a visitor hotline 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Aktuelle News zum Coronavirus: Bei der FAZ finden Sie Informationen zur weltweiten Ausbreitung der Pandemie. The death rate (in Japan) is low. Medical expenses may be high in the event that you become sick or get injured and need to go to the hospital whilst in Japan so please do not forget to take out the necessary travel insurance. These are external links and will open in a new window Japan has the lowest rates of coronary heart disease and obesity in the developed world. He thinks it is possible a Sars-like virus has circulated in the region before, which may account for the low death rate, not just in Japan, but in much of China, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South East Asia. Does the fact that Japan has, so far, succeeded in keeping infections and deaths low, without shutting down or ordering people to stay at home, show a way forward? "If such measures were delayed, we might have experienced a similar situation like New York or London. NHK WORLD-JAPAN is NHK's international service, which delivers the latest information about Japan through TV, radio and the Internet. That we still have to be careful around each other," says Keiji Fukuda, an influenza specialist and director of the School of Public Health at Hong Kong University.Japan's track and trace system also goes back to the 1950s when it battled a wave of tuberculosis. It is possibly relevant that some aspects of Japanese mores - few hugs and kisses on greeting - have in-built social distancing, but nobody thinks that is the answer.Tokyo University professor Tatsuhiko Kodama - who studies how Japanese patients react to the virus - believes Japan may have had Covid before. You need a certain kind of response from the public, which I don't think is going to be so easily replicated in other countries," adds Prof Fukuda.Japan asked people to take care, stay away from crowded places, wear masks and wash their hands - and by and large, that is exactly what most people have done.