In response to the shift to Class 5 of the new coronavirus under the Infectious Diseases Act, the number of people who died is no longer announced every day. "Excess deaths" is a method to find out how much the actual number of deaths exceeded the statistically estimated number from past data.
Experts who conducted the analysis said that although there were deaths, it is believed that there was no significant increase. The National Institute of Infectious. Diseases says that by providing information on the number. of deaths with the cooperation of some local governments and analyzing it, it will be possible to quickly grasp. whether the number is increasing.