{"id":7317,"date":"2024-10-24T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7317"},"modified":"2024-10-24T11:34:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T15:34:24","slug":"japan-covid-deaths-14-times-that-of-flu-after-guidelines-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/japan-covid-deaths-14-times-that-of-flu-after-guidelines-lifted\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan COVID deaths 14 times that of flu after guidelines lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&nbsp;times higher than deaths caused by influenza during the same period, government data showed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Coronavirus infections led to 32,576 deaths during the 12&nbsp;months, with those aged 65 or older accounting for 97 percent of the total, while the number of influenza fatalities reached 2,244, according to the health ministry\u2019s vital statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&nbsp;times higher than deaths caused by influenza during the same period, government data showed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Coronavirus infections led to 32,576 deaths during the 12&nbsp;months, with those aged 65 or older accounting for 97 percent of the total, while the number of influenza fatalities reached 2,244, according to the health ministry\u2019s vital statistics.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/japan-covid-deaths-14-times-that-of-flu-after-guidelines-lifted\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan COVID deaths 14 times that of flu after guidelines lifted<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1130,18,150,77,103,14,230],"class_list":["post-7317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-asia","tag-covid-19","tag-deaths","tag-influenza","tag-japan","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-statistics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7318,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7317\/revisions\/7318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}