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🇯🇵Japan COVID deaths 14 times that of flu after guidelines lifted.

"More than 30,000 people in Japan died of COVID-19 in the first year after most coronavirus-related guidelines were lifted in May 2023, a figure over 14 times higher than deaths caused by influenza during the same period, government data showed Thursday."

"After the virus was downgraded to the same legal status as influenza on May 8 last year, the government removed guidelines, including the seven-day quarantine period for those who tested positive, to facilitate the normalization of social and economic activities."

Source: https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/10/4ad3c4ed8367-japan-covid-deaths-14-times-that-of-flu-after-guidelines-lifted.html

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