flu season
COVID-19 appears to be suppressing the flu in Japan, number of cases down and decreasing
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Master Blaster
Dec 21, 2020 - Tweet
- Japan
- (coronavirus • COVID-19 • epidemic • flu • flu season • health • influenza • Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare • statistics)
Epidemic! Tokyo issues an influenza alert following a significant increase in cases
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KK Miller
Jan 10, 2015
Are you feeling under the weather? Is your fever running higher than 38°C (100.4°F)? Are you living in or around Tokyo? If you’ve answered “yes” to all of the above, then there’s a good chance you have the flu! After the results of a weekly influenza check came in for the week of December 22 to 28, it seems that epidemic levels of the virus have reached Japan’s capital city.
Grab your mask and water for gargling; it’s only predicted to get more serious!
- Japan
- (epidemic • flu season • health alert • influenza • Tokyo)
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