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‘Perfect storm’ for suicide as death toll surges past COVID

Posted by Captain Hook @ 19:57 on November 29, 2020  

CBS News, for example, reported far more Japanese people “are dying of suicide, likely exacerbated by the economic and social repercussions of the pandemic, than of the COVID-19 disease itself.”

“While Japan has managed its coronavirus epidemic far better than many nations, keeping deaths below 2,000 nationwide, provisional statistics from the National Police Agency show suicides surged to 2,153 in October alone, marking the fourth straight month of increase.”

The suicide toll is about 600 higher than the same time a year earlier, the network reported. The surge followed an extended time in which suicide deaths had been declining.

“We need to seriously confront reality,” said a spokesman for the government, Katsunobu Kato.

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