Prognosis
Covid’s Quiet Creep in Japan Fuels Its Deadliest Outbreak Yet
- A surge of infections led to rising death rates in aging Japan
- New Zealand’s Covid deaths now lowest among wealthy nations
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Japan is no longer the best-performing wealthy nation when it comes to avoiding Covid deaths.
The country, which has one of the oldest populations in the world, is quietly experiencing its biggest outbreak of the pandemic. A wave of omicron infections overwhelmed its health system this winter and delayed medical care for patients, sending daily deaths to a record high of more than 500 on Jan. 14, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.