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> Japan's testing has been extremely anemic

Anemic is definitely a nice way to put it.

Japan is testing at a per capita rate below that of Iraq, Ukraine, Vietnam, Mongolia, Moldova and South Africa.

Their testing rate is so extraordinarily low, the US is testing more people per day than Japan has tested in total across the past four months.

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I'm not sure how Vietnam ended up on your list but I'm pretty sure they have been testing pretty extensively, and more importantly, much earlier than most other countries.

Here's the data for all countries

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Vietnam also has fewer confirmed cases per-capita (3/mil vs 100/mil) despite testing more people per-capita than Japan. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-19-tests-cases-scat...

Japan's low per-capita tests could be justified by saying they don't have many per-capita cases, but their test-to-positive ratio is similar to places which have been hit hard like Italy and Portugal. It should be easier for them to have a higher ratio given that they have so few cases compared to Italy

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