Corona and sumo

[Seiyashi]

https://www.sumo.or.jp/IrohaKyokaiInformation/detail?id=543

So has the NHK charity sumo. 

[Kintamayama]

47 minutes ago, Seiyashi said:

https://www.sumo.or.jp/IrohaKyokaiInformation/detail?id=543

So has the NHK charity sumo. 

All Kyokai members will undergo PCR tests tomorrow, February 8th.

[Seiyashi]

19 minutes ago, Kintamayama said:

All Kyokai members will undergo PCR tests tomorrow, February 8th.

If the events are cancelled, what's the test for? Trying to contain the Mitakeumi cluster? That's quite an about face for them considering their attitude towards it just a few days ago. 

[Akinomaki]

1 hour ago, Seiyashi said:

https://www.sumo.or.jp/IrohaKyokaiInformation/detail?id=543

So has the NHK charity sumo. 

Not yet canceled is another event that day, at the same time as the planned start of charity sumo, an online live talk for the official NSK fanclub, also for the free of charge juryo members. With Mitakeumi (!), Abi, Kotonowaka and Izutsu-oyakata, Feb. 11th, 12:30h-13:20h JST, on an extra page on the fanclub site. https://fanclub.sumo.or.jp/contents/493627

The page is from Jan. 28th, just before Mitakeumi turned out to be infected, top on the event page https://fanclub.sumo.or.jp/contents/event

[Akinomaki]

7 minutes ago, Seiyashi said:

If the events are cancelled, what's the test for? Trying to contain the Mitakeumi cluster? That's quite an about face for them considering their attitude towards it just a few days ago. 

A test for all NSK members (except those already tested positive), as regularly done, the last one was just for those to take part in the upcoming events

[Inside Sport Japan]

Nine more sekitori and eleven oyakata tested positive for Covid in the latest round of PCR

252 members of the JSA have been infected to date. Roughly one quarter of the organization.

Latest positives - sekitori:

• Shimanoumi,
• Shiba,
• Churanoumi, 
• Chiyonokuni, 
• Takarafuji, 
• Shodai, 
• Kiribyama, 
• Akua,
• Meisei

Oyakata:

• （Michinoku）
• （Urakaze）
• （Tokitsukaze）
• （Tatsunami）
• （Kabutoyama）
• （Sakaigawa）
• （Kise）
• （Onogawa）
• （Ajigawa)
• （Tateyama)
• （Katsunoura）

[rhyen]

18 minutes ago, Inside Sport Japan said:

Nine more sekitori and eleven oyakata tested positive for Covid in the latest round of PCR

252 members of the JSA have been infected to date. Roughly one quarter of the organization.

Latest positives - sekitori:

• Shimanoumi,
• Shiba,
• Churanoumi, 
• Chiyonokuni, 
• Takarafuji, 
• Shodai, 
• Kiribyama, 
• Akua,
• Meisei

Oyakata:

• （Michinoku）
• （Urakaze）
• （Tokitsukaze）
• （Tatsunami）
• （Kabutoyama）
• （Sakaigawa）
• （Kise）
• （Onogawa）
• （Ajigawa)
• （Tateyama)
• （Katsunoura）

Eh, Does that mean that Tateyama’s DPS has to be postponed?

 

[rhyen]

Looking at the latest figures for Osaka, 

60+% hospital bed utilisation rate for covid patients looks very dicey. Perhaps it would be best not to send the troops down to Osaka and instead hold it in Tokyo to help localise the spread of the infection?

[Akinomaki]

The NSK announced today that because of the spread of Corona cases, the usual pre-basho  joint keiko sessions in the kokugikan are canceled https://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2022020901030&g=spo

[Akinomaki]

48 new infections in all were found after the latest PCR tests, with 11 toshiyori and 9 sekitori that are 28 unnamed lower ranked rikishi (I guess the lower ranked urakata are treated the same, neither name nor heya given), likely all from heya with infected sekitori or oyakata. https://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/202202090000707.html

[Eikokurai]

Yikes. This is a big one. Hopefully all are mild and will soon to be back full health. At least for the Kyokai it’s come early in the inter-basho period so can hopefully be contained and cleared up before March.

[Seiyashi]

https://sumo.or.jp/IrohaKyokaiInformation/detail?id=545

Ura (Kise) and Hiradoumi (Sakaigawa) also positive.

[Akinomaki]

19 hours ago, Eikokurai said:

Yikes. This is a big one. Hopefully all are mild and will soon to be back full health. At least for the Kyokai it’s come early in the inter-basho period so can hopefully be contained and cleared up before March.

No severe case, many without symptoms or out of hospital already. https://hochi.news/articles/20220209-OHT1T51211.html?page=1

The NSK had only announced the sekitori class cases, but revealed on the 9th that till the 4th 204 cases were known of those newly infected after the Hatsu basho. https://www.zakzak.co.jp/article/20220210-UWJ6MKQXUJIXNOA5OHZ4BSVHDI/

Edited February 10, 2022 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki]

Next week the NSK plans to begin with having all members vaccinated again https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOKC10D8I0Q2A210C2000000/

Only one prior vaccination for all has been reported in the past, so apparently this will be only the 2nd time.

Vaccination definitely has prevented further severe cases. We are witnessing again how little the NSK Corona guidelines are worth as prevention of infections. Vaccination is the thing that likely would have saved Shobushi, nothing else.

[Asashosakari]

Crass and inappropriate, but what else is new.

[ryafuji]

Shobushi of course died well before vaccines became available. Is it really the case that a second shot was never given to any of the rikishi? That's shocking. 

[Seiyashi]

3 hours ago, ryafuji said:

Shobushi of course died well before vaccines became available. Is it really the case that a second shot was never given to any of the rikishi? That's shocking. 

Depends on what shot the rikishi were given as some of the less popular vaccines are single-shot only, but IIRC the vaccines that are available in Japan are either Pfizer or Moderna which are 2-shot regimes. I really hope it was an availability issue, because not completing the regimen is pretty negligent.

[Reonito]

11 minutes ago, Seiyashi said:

Depends on what shot the rikishi were given as some of the less popular vaccines are single-shot only, but IIRC the vaccines that are available in Japan are either Pfizer or Moderna which are 2-shot regimes. I really hope it was an availability issue, because not completing the regimen is pretty negligent.

Pretty sure it's all Pfizer in Japan and all the wrestlers got two shots ahead of the July basho, though I can't dig up a news source.

[RabidJohn]

15 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

Vaccination is the thing that likely would have saved Shobushi, nothing else.

Not being an obese rikishi with other underlying health issues would probably have helped more than anything...
Still just pointless wishing things were otherwise, though.

[rhyen]

Might be an interesting experiment to see the impact of this superspreader event(s) on the Haru basho results.

 

[Akinomaki]

Chiba classifies the 6 Corona cases at Hanaregoma-beya (in Funabashi) between the 4th and the 10th as cluster. https://www.chibanippo.co.jp/news/national/905129

Ichiyamamoto was reported, the lower ranked rikishi not

Edit: 5 rikishi in their 20s, 1 in his 30s, the one on the 4th is Ichiyamamoto, 2 on the 7th and 3 on the 10th https://www.city.funabashi.lg.jp/kenkou/kansenshou/001/p101380_d/fil/20220212.pdf

Edited February 12, 2022 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki]

Terunofuji left hospital after a few days, Mitakeumi last week. Additional vaccination for oyakata and rikishi started today. https://www.sanspo.com/article/20220214-KN7IPVC3SRM6HBMNPWEW737ELY/

 

[Kintamayama]

Add Shikihide Oyakata to the list. Grand total- 252. Most of those hospitalized have left the hospitals.

Edited February 15, 2022 by Kintamayama

[Akinomaki]

6 hours ago, Kintamayama said:

Add Shikihide Oyakata to the list. Grand total- 252. Most of those hospitalized have left the hospitals.

252 is still the same number as on the 9th, should be much more now. The three from the 10th e.g.

On 12/02/2022 at 10:59, Akinomaki said:

Chiba classifies the 6 Corona cases at Hanaregoma-beya (in Funabashi) between the 4th and the 10th as cluster. https://www.chibanippo.co.jp/news/national/905129

Ichiyamamoto was reported, the lower ranked rikishi not

Edit: 5 rikishi in their 20s, 1 in his 30s, the one on the 4th is Ichiyamamoto, 2 on the 7th and 3 on the 10th https://www.city.funabashi.lg.jp/kenkou/kansenshou/001/p101380_d/fil/20220212.pdf

I thought that many heya should be classified as cluster, but I haven't found another official announcement like that from Funabashi, only one from 2020 about Tamanoi-beya https://www.city.adachi.tokyo.jp/hodo/juyo/0909juyo.html

[Kintamayama]

23 minutes ago, Akinomaki said:

252 is still the same number as on the 9th, should be much more now. The three from the 10th e.g.

I thought that many heya should be classified as cluster, but I haven't found another official announcement like that from Funabashi, only one from 2020 about Tamanoi-beya https://www.city.adachi.tokyo.jp/hodo/juyo/0909juyo.html

https://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/202202150001236.html