TOKYO, Jan 28 Coronavirus deaths in Japan in January exceeded 10,000 people for the first time since the start of the pandemic, the Kyodo news agency reported.
Over the past day in Japan, 252 people have died from a new coronavirus infection, thus, since the beginning of January, 10,124 people have died. For the first time since the start of the pandemic, the death toll has exceeded 10,000.
For a day in Japan, 54.7 thousand people fell ill with COVID-19.
A sharp increase in deaths from coronavirus in Japan has been observed since early December. In total, more than 67 thousand people died from coronavirus in Japan during the pandemic. But if in October 1,800 people died in a month, in November — more than 3,000, then in December this figure soared to 7,600 people. At the same time, 97% of all deaths occur in the age category over 60 years.