Saitama Covid-19 August 2020

Saitama Covid-19 updates for August 2020 will be added to this post as they become available. The previous Coronavirus post was starting to lag because it had close to 10,000 words. I was also encountering technical problems when trying to update it. So I have started a fresh post for the August updates.

Saitama Covid-19 August 2020

August 10th 2020 – last update 22:41.

Saitama August 10th
42

22:40 ~ The prefecture confirmed the 42 total and the below figures, but they still haven’t released the breakdown by city / town.

18:10 ~ Kawagoe announce 2 new cases of Covid-19.

17:50 ~ Saitama City announced 1 new case of Covid-19.

17:39 ~ Kawaguchi announced 5 new cases of Covid-19.

17:18 ~ the Prefecture announced 32 new cases of Covid-19.

16:45 ~ Koshigaya announced 2 new cases of Covid-19 today Monday August 10th.

**I will be unable to update the figures on August 11th and 12th. The next update, all things be equal, will be August 13th**

August 9th

19:00 ~ 56 cases confirmed. Of those, Saitama City confirmed 12 cases.

17:30 ~ 44 new Covid cases have already been announced for Saitama Prefecture Sunday August 9th.

Confirmed by:

• the Prefecture – 32 cases
• Saitama City – 12 cases
• Kawaguchi – 10 cases
• Koshigaya – 2 cases

Cases by area

The breakdown by area was not released by the prefecture on August 8th so these are the totals are presumably for Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th combined:

• Saitama City – 27 cases
• Kawaguchi – 11 cases
• Tokorozawa – 7 cases
• Shiraoka – 7 cases
• Soka – 7 cases
• Kumagaya – 5 cases
• Kasukabe – 4 cases
• Koshigaya – 4 cases
• Misato – 4 cases
• Kawagoe – 4 cases
• Yashio – 4 cases
• Ageo – 3
• Asaka – 3
• Fujimino – 3
• Moroyama – 2
• Niiza – 2
• Toda – 2
• Fujimi – 2
• Warabi – 2
• Iruma – 1
• Wako – 1
• Hasuda – 1
• Tsurugashima – 1
• Hanno – 1
• Kazo – 1

Saitama Covid-19 Totals to date

Totals by and for cities and towns with more than 10 cases of Covid-19 confirmed since January:

Location Saitama	08/07	08/08	08/09
Saitama City	489	F	516
Kawaguchi	296	I	307
Tokorozawa	229	G	236
Koshigaya	163	U	167
Kawagoe	109	R	113
Soka	105	E	112
Kasukabe	86	S	90
Toda	71		73
Iruma	55	W	56
Ageo	53	E	56
Niiza	52	R	54
Fujimino	50	E	53
Asaka	49		52
Misato	43	N	47
Wako	44	O	45
Sayama	41	T	41
Fujimi	34		36
Warabi	33	R	35
Shiraoka	27	E	34
Yashio	29	L	33
Shiki	31	E	31
Kumagaya	25	A	30
Kuki	27	S	27
Chichibu	27	E	27
Sakado	26	D	26
Konosu	24		24
Moroyama	18		20
Hasuda	19		20
Tsurugashima	19		20
Kazo	16		17
Hanno	15		16
Okegawa	16		16
Yoshikawa	15		15
Higashimatsuyama	15		15
Satte	14		14
Gyoda	13		13
Miyoshi	12		12
Hanyu	11		11
Ina	11		11
Kamisato	10		10
Fukaya	10		10
Ogawa	9		9
Sugito	9		9
Kitamoto	9		9

The table for August 1st to August 7th is here.

August 8th

17:45 ~ 84 cases confirmed in Saitama Prefecture today. A new daily high for Saitama.

Saitama City announced 11 cases.

17:27 ~ 73 cases have been announced for Saitama Prefecture Saturday August 8th. Saitama City have yet to release their figures.

17:17 ~ the prefecture announced 59 new cases of Covid-19.

17:09 ~ Kawagoe confirmed 3 new cases.

16:55 ~ Koshigaya confirmed 2 new cases.

16:35 ~ Kawaguchi confirmed 9 new cases.

Confirmed by:

• the prefecture – 59 cases
• Saitama City – 11 cases
• Kawaguchi – 9 cases
• Kawagoe – 3 cases
• Koshigaya – 2 cases

By area:

Won’t be available until later tonight. Update 00:30 on August 9th 2020 – they still haven’t updated the figures by area on the Stop Covid website. Although it says the figures are for 08/08 they are exactly the same as they were for 08/07. August 9th 17:18 – they still haven’t updated the figures by city and town. They will probably now update Saturday and Sunday together.

What we know from Saitama Newspaper:

• Tokorozawa – 5 more patients found with infections at the Tokorozawa Dai-ichi Hospital. Bringing the total number of cases in that cluster to 39.
• In Shiraoka – 6 more cases were confirmed by a civil and engineering company which has previously had cases. The total number of cases confirmed at this company is now 11.
• Kumagaya – 5 male college students in their teens and twenties living in Kumagaya city tested positive. They belong to the same exercise circle.
• Saitama City – 10 people related to one school were found to have the virus. 5 of them are in the same family including a parent and grandparent of the pupil.

August 7th

A total of 50 new Covid-19 cases were confirmed on Friday August 7th.

18:27 ~ Saitama City and Koshigaya announced 14 cases between them. The total number of cases announced on Friday August 7th is 50. However, the prefecture won’t confirm this number until 9 pm tonight.

18:07 ~ 36+ of which the prefecture confirmed 29 cases and Kawaguchi confirmed 5 cases and;

16:46 ~ 2 cases have been confirmed so far by Kawagoe, a woman in her 30s and a man in her 40s.

Confirmed by:

• the Prefecture -　29
• Kawaguchi – 5
• Saitama City – 11
• Koshigaya – 3
• Kawagoe – 2

Cases by area:

• Saitama city – 10 cases
• Kawaguchi – 5 cases
• Koshigaya – 3 cases
• Kawagoe – 3 cases (2 confirmed in city, 1 confirmed elsewhere)
• Toda – 3
• Sakado – 3
• Miyoshi – 3
• Misato – 2
• Sayama – 1
• Soka – 1
• Kasukabe – 1
• Warabi – 1
• Fujimi – 1
• Kumagaya – 1
• Shiraoka – 1
• Kuki – 1

Iwatsuki High Cluster

The Prefectural Board of Education announced on the 7th that one student and one staff member of the prefectural Iwatsuki High School confirmed positive, bringing to 10 the number of people infected at the school. The ten are students and advisors who belong to the same “bukatsu” (school club).

August 6th

65 new cases of Covid-19 and 2 deaths were recorded in Saitama prefecture on Thursday August 6th 2020. 18:34 ~ Saitama City announced 5 new cases of Covid-19 in people aged between 20 and 59 years old. 18:20 ~ Kawaguchi announced 8 new cases of Covid-19. 17:24 ~ an additional case was announced by Koshigaya. 16:45 ~ 51 cases so far. 47 cases confirmed by Saitama Prefecture. This is the earliest in a long time that the prefecture confirmed figures have been released this early!

Confirmed by:

• the Prefecture – 47
• Kawaguchi – 8
• Saitama City – 5
• Kawagoe – 4
• Koshigaya – 1

16:25 ~ 4 cases in Saitama prefecture so far today; Thursday August 6th 2020. Kawagoe announced 4 cases. 3 of those cases live in Kawagoe, 1 of which is an elementary school student. The name of the elementary school has not yet been released. 1 of the 4 confirmed in Kawagoe lives in Saitama City.

By area:

• Saitama City – 10 cases
• Kawaguchi – 7 cases
• Moroyama – 5 cases
• Tokorozawa – 4
• Shiraoka – 4
• Kawagoe – 5 (3 confirmed within city, 2 confirmed elsewhere)
• Soka – 3
• Kuki – 3
• Misato – 3
• Ageo – 3
• Kasukabe – 2
• Fujimi – 2
• Ageo – 2
• Wako – 2
• Toda – 1
• Shiki – 1
• Warabi – 1
• Kumagaya – 1
• Yoshikawa – 1
• Okegawa – 1
• Kazo – 1
• Ina – 1

August 5th

19:39 ~ 64 cases of Covid-19 announced in Saitama Prefecture today, Wednesday August 5th. There was also another death announced today.

Confirmed by:

• the Prefecture – 37 cases
• Saitama City – 14 cases
• Koshigaya – 7 cases
• Kawaguchi – 5 case
• Kawagoe – 1 case

The break down by area:

• Saitama City – 17 cases
• Koshigaya – 7 cases
• Kawaguchi – 4 cases
• Toda – 3 cases
• Asaka – 3 cases
• Kawagoe – 2 cases (previously reported 1 – an additional case was reported in a center outside of Kawagoe)
• Iruma – 2 cases
• Gyoda – 2 cases
• Yashio – 2 cases
• Hanyu – 1 case
• Soka – 1 case
• Moroyama – 1 case
• Kawajima – 1 case
• Ogawa – 1 case
• Higashimatsuyama – 1 case
• Kasukabe – 1
• Ageo – 1
• Sayama – 1
• Misato – 1
• Warabi – 1
• Ina – 1
• Sakado – 1
• Okegawa – 1

19:35 ~ so far 50 cases. 17:48 ~ 37 cases announced so far. 15:22 ~ Kawagoe announced 1 case.

Tuesday August 4th

21:10 ~ The prefecture confirmed that there were 49 new cases of Covid-19 and two deaths in Saitama todya, August 4th.

By area

22:10 ~ still awaiting figures, but this is what we know so far… August 5th 0:25 these cases were confirmed by town / city:

• Kasukabe – 6 cases
• Saitama City – 4 cases
• Soka – 4 cases (1 confirmed by Kawaguchi, 2 by the prefecture)
• Chichibu – 3 cases
• Toda – 2 cases
• Kawaguchi – 2 cases
• Tokorozawa – 2 cases
• Moroyama – 2 cases
• Kawagoe – 2 cases
• Fujimino – 2
• Iruma – 1
• Miyashiro – 1 case
• Yashio – 1 case
• Shiraoka – 1
• Kazo – 1

19:30 ~ The Prefecture confirmed 41 new cases of Covid-19 today. Koshigaya confirmed 1 case and 1 person from Soka was confirmed. Saitama City confirmed 4 cases. One new death was also confirmed so far, but according to Tokyo Newspaper there were actually two deaths announced today.

There were 81 inpatients on July 1st, that figure was 243 on July 29th. The increase is actually below the national average. Nationwide the number of Covid-19 patients in hospital was five times higher on July 29th than July 1st.

17:43 ~ Kawaguchi have confirmed the tenth case in the police department since July 18th. The man confirmed today is a police officer in his forties who works with other previously confirmed cases.

17:20 ~ The prefecture announced that among yesterday‘s confirmed patients, two are students of a Prefectural High School.

Messsage from Governor Ono today, August 4th.

Monday August 3rd

19:03 ~ 49 cases have been confirmed in Saitama Prefecture today, Monday August 3rd 2020. Kawagoe confirmed 2 cases, Kawaguchi 3 cases and between Koshigaya, Saitama City and the prefecture 44 cases were confirmed.

The numbers by area don’t add up today. The prefecture said a total of 49 were confirmed in Saitama today, but when you add them up by city and town it is 65???? Giving them the benefit of the doubt, especially with yesterday being a Sunday (when there is limited staff) I assume the discrepancy is that the additional figures in the town / city break down are from the weekend when the town / city figures were short.

By area

• Saitama City – 8 cases
• Kawaguchi – 4 cases
• Tokorozawa – 25 cases
• Koshigaya – 4
• Asaka – 4
• Tsurugashima – 3
• Kawagoe – 2
• Soka – 2
• Fujimino – 2
• Fujimi – 2
• Sakado – 2
• Iruma – 1
• Ageo – 1
• Wako – 1
• Fujimi – 1
• Yashio – 1
• Konosu – 1
• Chichibu – 1
• Kazo – 1
• Gyoda – 1
• Moroyama -1

Tokorozawa Cluster

A cluster has been found at the Tokorozawa Daiichi Hospital. 25 cases in total were confirmed on August 3rd of which 15 are patients. The other 10 are hospital staff including nurses. In July a patient was confirmed with the virus after he had been admitted to hospital. It is suspected this is how the cluster arose. They are currently tracing contacts of all confirmed cases. Currently, 68 people are awaiting test results.

Also of note in Tokorozawa is that one of the cases confirmed yesterday is a Hoikuen teacher. They are tracing contacts at the moment.

The Yaoko Cluster

A friend very kindly drew my attention to a “cluster” among the Yaoko supermarkets. Over the last three days Yaoko have announced new cases among their branches in Saitama. A total of at least 6 cases* have been found in Saitama branches of Yaoko (plus one in Tokyo) in just three days.

*(I initially wrote 8 but 2 – 1 at Sakado and 1 at Iruma – haven’t been confirmed yet. That is why I have 1(+) for those two locations below)

• August 1st: Tsukinowa Station branch Namegawa – 1 case. The branch is temporarily closed for disinfecting until August 5th.
• August 1st: Sakado Chiyoda branch – 1(+) case(s). The branch is temporarily closed for disinfecting until tomorrow morning.
• August 1st: Kami Fukuoka branch – 1 case. The branch is temporarily closed for disinfecting.
• August 1st: Iruma Shimofujizawa branch – 1(+) case(s). The branch is temporarily closed for disinfecting.
• August 2nd: Soka Matsubara branch – 1 case within staff, but there has also been a customer identified separately.
• August 2nd: Omiya Shimacho branch – 1 case.
  
• TOKYO: August 3rd a staff member in the Higashiyamato branch of Yaoko in Tokyo also tested positive.

Other:

Both the Kawagoe cases are men – one in his 20s and one in his 40s. Both were going to work by train even on the day they got their fever. One of the cases does not have a cough, which has been quite common in Kawagoe cases. (Kawagoe gives detailed information promptly unlike the other principal cities). People complain of a sore throat and high fever between 37.7 and 38 degrees, but no cough and no other symptoms.

August 2nd

A total of 74 cases were confirmed in Saitama Prefecture on Sunday the 2nd of August. It is exactly the same total figure as August 1st, but the figures by city / town are different.

Confirmed by:

• the Prefecture – 50
• Saitama City – 11
• Koshigaya – 8
• Kawaguchi – 5

By area:

• Saitama City – 11
• Koshigaya – 8
• Kawaguchi – 5
• Sakado – 5
• Tokorozawa – 3
• Chichibu – 3
• Soka – 1
• Kasukabe – 1
• Toda – 1
• Niiza – 1
• Wako – 1
• Warabi – 1
• Yashio – 1
• Kumagaya – 1
• Satte – 1
• ??? – 30

18:47 ~ The current total for Saitama Prefecture on August 2nd is 74 (same figure as yesterday). It appears to be the final total. The Prefecture will confirm the overall total around 9 pm tonight.

18:32 ~ 50+. Of which 11 were confirmed by Saitama City. Aged between 20 and 79 years old. Saitama Prefecture confirmed 50 cases.

17:17 ~ 5 new cases announced for Saitama Prefecture so far today.　The five cases announced so far were confirmed by Kawaguchi city. They are aged between 10 and 89 years old.

August 1st

Total: 74 new cases confirmed in Saitama Prefecture on Saturday August 1st.

By area:

• Kawaguchi – 10 cases
• Saitama city – 6 cases
• Tokorozawa – 6 cases
• Soka – 5 cases
• Ageo – 4
• Chichibu – 4
• Koshigaya – 3
• Toda – 3
• Hanyu – 3
• Kasukabe – 2
• Kuki – 2
• Iruma – 2
• Misato – 2
• Tsurugashima – 2
• Niiza – 1
• Kawagoe – 1
• Fujimino – 1
• Asaka – 1
• Wako – 1
• Sayama – 1
• Shiraoka – 1
• Sakado – 1
• Satte – 1
• Kazo – 1

20:35 ~ Of the 74 confirmed cases, 1 is a woman in her thirties resident in the “Taiyo no Sato” facility for the disabled where a cluster has occurred. So far a total of 14 cases related to the facility have been confirmed in the past week.

In Minano Town an elementary school aged child of under ten was among the cases confirmed today. In Saitama City all five cases confirmed today are teenage students. The prefectural board of Education announced that among today’s confirmed cases there were students from the prefectural Omiya High School and prefectural school (/s?) in the south of the prefecture.

18:45 ~ 74 new cases of Covid-19 in Saitama today.

Confirmed by;

• the prefecture – 53 cases
• Kawaguchi – 12
• Saitama City – 5
• Koshigaya – 3
• Kawagoe – 1

18:35 ~ A further 17 new cases of Covid-19 were announced for Saitama Prefecture, bringing the total, so far, to 21 cases.

17:35 ~ 4 cases of Covid-19 announced for Saitama so far today. 3 of those cases were confirmed by Koshigaya – 3 males aged between 10 and 49 years old. One case – a man in his twenties – has been confirmed in Kawagoe so far today. The man works in the prefecture. He was tested as a trace contact after a colleague in his work place tested positive. He had been travelling to work by train until Thursday July 30th.

August 1st Kanto Plain

• Tokyo – 472 new cases, the highest one day total to date
• Chiba – 73
• Kanagawa – 58
• Ibaraki – 14
• Gunma – 1
• Tochigi –

Total figures

August	New Cases	Total cases
August 9th	56	2,878
August 8th	84	2,822
August 7th	50	2,738
August 6th	65	2,688
August 5th	64	2,623
August 4th	49	2,559
August 3rd	49	2,510
August 2nd	74	2,461
August 1st	74	2,387
July 31st	57	2,313
June figures	July figures

July figures here.

Resources

Saitama Prefecture Coronavirus web page (click) updated nightly around 9 pm.

Stop Covid Saitama web page (click) updated most nights around 11 pm. Same page translated into English.