okyo has reported a record number of Covid-19 cases amid concerns the Olympics is fuelling a spread of the virus in Japan.
On Tuesday 3,177 new cases were reported, the highest number since the pandemic began in 2020.
It comes as Mike Tildesley, professor of infectious disease modelling at the University of Warwick, said Covid-19 “isn’t necessarily all over bar the shouting quite yet”.
The member of scientific modelling group Spi-M told Times Radio: “I think people are aware that Covid isn’t quite over.”
“I really hope that this is the turnaround of the third wave and as we get towards the autumn we really are very much getting back to normal. But I think, actually, people are doing pretty well at using their own judgment and exercising caution when necessary. It’s pretty clear that we are not back to kind of pre-pandemic levels of mixing – people aren’t socialising in the same way they were before the pandemic, hopefully that will come.”
