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    Japan: COVID-19 To Be Treated As Common Flu

    Bolanle Oduekun-AyoolaBy Bolanle Oduekun-AyoolaJanuary 20, 2023Updated:January 20, 2023No Comments2 Mins Read
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    Japan has said it will start considering COVID-19 as being equivalent to the seasonal common flu.

    Japan’s Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, announced on Friday that COVID-19 would be reclassified to disease category five from the current level two, which puts COVID-19 on same level with Tuberculosis and SARS. The new reclassification to category five, which would take effect from Spring of 2023, and will see the virus in same category as the common flu and cold.

    The shift means that wearing face masks will no longer be necessary in indoor public spaces and it also ends the need for infected people and close contacts to self-isolate.

    “As we try to restore the lifestyles of a normal Japan, we would like to shift various measures step by step.

    “In order to return to our ordinary daily life in Japan while pursuing measures to adapt to living with the coronavirus, we will study concrete measures to gradually move on to a next step,” Kishida was quoted as saying by Daily Mail UK.

    Patients are however, only to wear masks indoors if symptomatic.

    Although, some Japanese experts have questioned the timing of the announcement, given that Covid cases were on the rise in recent times, with the current number of cases each day reportedly 338 per 100,000 people, a number that is up 40 per cent from the previous week.

    In recent weeks, there had also been an uptick in deaths correlated with a rise in infections in the elderly. Japan recorded 500 fatalities last Saturday.

    “It’s still too early to tell if the current wave of infections has peaked,” the Director-General of Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Takaji Wakita, said at a panel session at the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in Tokyo on January 17.

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