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| SvennoJ said: And as usual that would be too late anyway. Any idea what's going on in Japan @haxxiy, still going up there and they now reached their highest daily death count since the pandemic started, with far less cases than the last peak. (Which could just be less testing) Is it getting fueled on by Chinese tourists or something else? Japan logs 415 Covid deaths, highest-ever single day count |
Japan is having a BA.5.2 wave with just some BQ, as some European countries had in October, Germany being the biggest example. So not quite variant-driven, just the same old stuff from summer but a little more intrinsically fit.
Why vanilla BA.5 would cause two waves in a row in some places is a bit of a mystery. It might be season-related, or might be because these countries have less immunity than others. Compare to South Korea which had a massive BA.2 wave but now has a quiet winter despite a worse variant mix:
