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Correction to: Polarized nature of the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: associations with population age structure and behaviours

Tropical Medicine and Health volume 49, Article number: 61 (2021) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 13 May 2021

Correction to: Trop Med Health 49, 38 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s41182-021-00324-0

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors identified an error in Fig. 1. The wrong part is the location of the red-line to indicate the 30% line. The correct figure is given below.

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Cumulative COVID-19 cases, cases per 100,000 population and proportion of population aged ≥65 years. a Due to non-normal distribution of data, Spearman’s rank correlation test was adopted. Cumulative COVID-19 cases and cases per 100,000 population are calculated based on reported cases as of 2 May 2020

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  1. Okumura J. Polarized nature of the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: associations with population age structure and behaviours. Trop Med Health. 2021;49:38. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41182-021-00324-0.

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  1. Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki, Japan

    Junko Okumura

  2. School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, 1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, 852-8523, Japan

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Okumura, J. Correction to: Polarized nature of the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: associations with population age structure and behaviours. Trop Med Health 49, 61 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41182-021-00350-y

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