Khaldon Azhari Tokyo

About 90 percent of patients in Japan that tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered or are recovering, according to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

The number of COVID-19 cases confirmed through PCR tests in Japan is 18,254, with 971 deaths as of June 28, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare reported.

The number of cases that tested positive includes 302 cases at Japanese international airports such as Haneda, Narita and Kansai, with one death at a quarantine center there. The ministry didn’t disclose the nationalities or the airport name for privacy reasons.

According to the ministry, 370,382  people took PCR tests in the country, and 4 percent of those tests came back positive for COVID-19. This number of total infections doesn’t include the tests received by the 829 returnees on chartered flights from China. Data showed that among the returnees, there were 15 positive cases which have all recovered by now.

Among all those who tested positive in PCR tests, 16,392 "have recovered" or "at the end of their medical treatment in various hospitals in the country," the ministry said.

On the other hand, 833 are "still gaining inpatient treatment" and 6 percent of them,  or 51 patients, are in "critical condition."

Through June 25, 296 patients have tested positive by PCR tests in airport quarantine and 106 have needed inpatient treatment.

A total of 69,528 people were tested in airport quarantine and none of those that tested positive there have been in critical condition. 189 were already discharged or are ending their medical treatment, the health ministry said.

Of the 3,711 passengers and crew of the Diamond Princess cruise ship, of which 1,341 are Japanese nationals, 712 tested positive by PCR tests, including 331 people without any symptoms. So far, 13 have died, 658 have been discharged and one person is still receiving inpatient treatment, according the latest release by the health ministry in Tokyo.