Japan's Ministry of Health and Welfare found that the number of confirmed cases dropped by 314,000 from September last year to January this year, all of whom were elderly people over the age of 65.

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[Instant News/Comprehensive Report] After Japan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare announced the restructuring of the reporting of Wuhan pneumonia (new coronavirus disease, COVID-19), it was found that the actual number of confirmed cases was 314,000 less than the report, and the number of elderly people over 65 years old accounted for 3.2% of the total infection cases. .

The Ministry of Health and Welfare immediately notified the local government to reconfirm the content of the report and add the missing cases.

According to the Japanese media "Yomiuri Shimbun", the Ministry of Health and Welfare stated on the 26th that the number of confirmed cases from September last year to January 11 this year missed 314,000 elderly people over the age of 65, accounting for 3.2% of the total number of cases during this period.

The reason may be related to the change of the notification method of confirmed cases by the Ministry of Health and Welfare in September last year.

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At that time, the Ministry of Health and Welfare changed the case notification system, and the scope of case reports submitted by medical institution centers was limited to "severely ill high-risk groups."

However, when the Ministry of Health and Welfare reviewed the reports of confirmed cases, it found that "the number of infected elderly people is significantly lower than the number of reported cases."

After the missing cases were discovered by the Ministry of Health, Welfare, it immediately issued a notice asking the local government to reconfirm the content of the case report and notify the medical institution to add the missing case in the report.

Considering that this will affect the workload of medical institutions, it will be up to each prefecture in Japan to decide whether to revise the number of infected people.

A Ministry of Health and Welfare official told the media that the Ministry of Health and Welfare is comprehensively assessing the current infection situation through other methods such as hospital bed occupancy rate.

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