Japan has conducted a total of around 130,000 coronavirus tests since the start of the outbreak. (Compare this to South Korea, a country 40% as populous as Japan, which has conducted 520,000 tests)https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/23/national/japan-coronavirus-tests-positive-rate-rises/ …
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In March it was clear that Japan was massively undercounting cases, but there weren't enough to strain the medical system. Now that we've reached that point, the reluctance to test widely continues. Abe is one of the worst leadership failures of the pandemic, in a crowded field.
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It was pretty wonderful. It made everyone else who had tweeted about Japan in cleartext look like a bunch of rubes.
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