The country is now coming under criticism for opening too soon, as numbers have spiked over the summer. Johns Hopkins data shows there have been 28,000 new cases in August alone, taking the nation’s case total to more than 64,000. “This is the result of the government prioritizing economic activity — by getting people to move around again — over infection control,” Yoshihito Niki, a professor of infectious diseases at Showa University’s School of Medicine told Bloomberg this week.