11. My Opinion: Latest news and current affairs in Japan and around the world by Peter Yonenaga

Well, first of all, I'd like you to take a look at the reports from Chinese government. Or manysite are said to be the first to report the number of infected people and the number of deaths in China, Italy and Iran and more.

As far as I know, there was a strange virus in Wuhan at the end of November last year. I heard that there was a seafood market selling various things and the infection spread from there.

By late December of last year, it had already spread considerably. It was the same as the current Japanese government, and the government ignored it.

The Wuhan local government has been ignoring since then, and it has been said that the figures announced by the government are quite different from the actual situation.

It has been said since then that the actual number is 10 to 100 times that announced by the government. It is said that 10 to 100 times the figure announced by the government is the real figure.

So the actual number might be over 800,000 or 8 million. It is said that about 200,00 to 200,000 people died.

I think that makes sense. This, however, shows no sign of abating. Three weeks have passed since Wuhan city was locked down.

Chinese Government lied. Because the government reduced the number by lying, there was a public anger to restore the statistics. Even Japanese government did same things.

Then it increased this much. There are several reasons why the number of infected people and the number of deaths are increasing even if the city is locked down.

In other words, there are many cases where people are infected from near places such as in the community or at home. And then, it may fly far away by airborne infection.