Japanese studies have found variations of the new coronavirus

, Aug. 8 (Xinhua Huayi) According to the Japan Broadcasting Association television statistics, as of 20 o'm on the 8th (Beijing time on the 8th at 19:00), Japan added 1565 new crown confirmed cases on the same day, two consecutive days of new cases more than 1500 cases. According to Japanese media reported the same day, the country's latest study found that since mid-June, Japan has a mutated new coronavirus with a new gene sequence.
statistics show that a total of 47,464 cases have been confirmed in Japan and 1,042 deaths have been reported. Tokyo on the 8th new confirmed cases 429 cases, a total of 15536 confirmed cases. More new confirmed cases were reported on the same day, including 178 in Osaka Prefecture, 177 in Aichi Prefecture, 150 in Fukuoka Prefecture and 128 in Kanagawa Prefecture. On the same day, a total of 39 of Japan's 47 prefectures reported new confirmed cases, and the U.S. military in Okinawa reported 7 new confirmed cases, with a cumulative total of 310 confirmed cases.
a new study by Japan's National Institute of Infections found that the new coronavirus, which has spread in Japan since June, is a mutated new coronavirus with a new gene sequence, Yomiuri Shimiuri reported on the same day. The expansion of the outbreak in Japan since March was largely caused by a new coronavirus in a European-related gene sequence, but was temporarily subsided in late May, the study said. Since mid-June, a new coronavirus with a new gene sequence has appeared in Tokyo and spread throughout the country. At present, a large number of confirmed patients in Japan are mostly infected with this mutated new coronavirus.
Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Labour statistics show that 31,307 confirmed cases in Japan have been discharged from the hospital or ended isolation, through polymerase chain reaction (PCR) detection of a cumulative number of about 986,000 people, an increase of about 24,000 people from the previous day.