The Japanese Broadcasting Association television station quoted the Japanese Ministry of health, labor and welfare as saying on the 11th that a woman who entered Japan recently was diagnosed with the new coronavirus Xe. This is the first time that this strain has been found in Japan. The infected person arrived at Narita Airport in Japan from the United States on March 26. She was tested positive by COVID-19 at the airport. After further analysis, the Japanese National Institute of infectious diseases found that it was infected with XE strain. Xe strain is the subtype Ba of Omicron strain 1 and ba 2, the British health department data show that it is better than ba The propagation speed of 2 is even faster. Since Japan lifted the administrative restrictions on epidemic prevention on March 22, the epidemic situation in some areas has rebounded. Okinawa Prefecture governor Yucheng Danny said on the 7th that Okinawa Prefecture has entered the seventh wave of the epidemic. Tokyo and other places have also been considered by experts and health officials as a harbinger of the seventh wave of the epidemic. Since the end of last year, the Omicron strain has triggered the sixth wave of epidemic in Japan, and the cumulative number of deaths from January to March this year alone has reached about 10000. According to the statistics of the Japan Broadcasting Association television station, as of 18:00 local time on the 11th (17:00 Beijing time), there were 33205 new confirmed cases in Japan that day, with a total of 7084093 confirmed cases; There were 34 new deaths and a total of 28739 deaths. (Xinhua News Agency)