Yoshihide Suga confirms that the Japanese government has been relying on the statistics of the epidemic data-Shangbao Indonesia

According to a report from the Japan Jiji News Agency on the 17th, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan has been relying on its hands to count new confirmed cases and other data since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga confirmed this at a meeting on the 17th. After the incident came to light, it sparked heated public opinion in Japan, and many netizens left messages accusing the government of “inefficient”.

On the 17th, at the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives of Japan, opposition member Kanako Otsuji asked: “How does the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare count the number of new crowns in the country?” In response, Director Masabayashi, Director of the Health Bureau of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, said that after 12 o’clock every night, The staff of the outsourcing company commissioned by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare will go to the official websites of each prefecture in Japan to visually confirm the data, and then manually calculate the number of newly diagnosed cases nationwide.

Yoshihide Suga also confirmed at the meeting: “Since the outbreak began, data has been collected by hand.” Zheng Lin said that other data such as the number of new deaths “are also counted in the same way.”

After the incident was exposed, it caused heated discussions in Japanese public opinion. Many netizens left messages on social networks and condemned: “The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is too low-powered to promote digital operations”, “If the government continues to fool things like this, Japan will definitely be out of help”, “In what era, it’s still on hand. Forget it? Statistical errors are frequent, it is too incompetent.” However, some opponents of netizens expressed their understanding, leaving a message saying: “Now that the medical force is insufficient, the sudden epidemic cannot build a corresponding network environment, and it is indeed difficult to respond in time.”

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