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Japan's daily COVID cases top 110,000 for 1st time

9 hours ago 07/16/2022
Japan's daily COVID-19 cases on Saturday topped 110,000 to set a new record as the country grapples with a seventh wave of coronavirus infections partly driven by the highly transmissible BA.5 Omicron subvariant.

The previous record was around 104,000 infections, set on Feb. 3 during the sixth wave of the virus. While infections were on a steady decline since then, a resurgence has been seen from late June.

On Friday, the government's response headquarters decided on key prevention measures including calling on people to get vaccinated and tested, and to ventilate spaces.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/07/ff2b831c2280-breaking-news-japans-daily-covid-cases-top-107000-a-record-high.html

Drug-resistant infections and deaths among hospital patients grew amid Covid-19 pandemic Tue July 12, 2022

Years of progress the United States had made in fighting drug-resistant infections were largely erased during the Covid-19 pandemic, with hospital-acquired infections and resulting deaths growing 15% in 2020.

A special report released Tuesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that more than 29,400 people died from antimicrobial-resistant infections in 2020. The full number is likely much higher, given that data for half of the 18 pathogens identified as threats are unavailable or delayed.
Nearly 40% of those deaths were among people who got the infection while in the hospital, according to the CDC report.


Between 2012 and 2017, deaths from antimicrobial resistance dropped 18% overall and nearly 30% in hospitals. But in 2020, deaths and acquired in the hospital grew by 15%.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/12/health/drug-resistant-infections-increase-hospital-patients/index.html