Photo/Illutration Officers head out on patrol in Tokyo’s Minato Ward on April 4 after being assigned from the Metropolitan Police Department to the Akasaka Police Station, where an officer’s infection with the new coronavirus was confirmed. (Shingo Tsuru)

While Tokyo residents were advised to stay indoors for the second consecutive weekend, novel coronavirus infections continued spiking on April 4 in the capital with 118 new cases reported.

That marked the first time the daily total topped 100, bringing the overall total in Tokyo to 891.

As of 11:35 p.m. that day, the number of new infections across Japan stood at 369, setting a new daily high.

The figure was pushed up by the continued surge in urban areas such as Tokyo and Osaka Prefecture. In Osaka Prefecture, 41 new infections were confirmed on April 4, a record for a single day there.

The same day, there were five deaths in Tokyo from complications from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, and one death each in Osaka Prefecture and Gifu Prefecture.

Tokyo officials said the virus has been spreading fast among young people since late March, when the metropolitan government began reporting a spike in the number of patients.

Of the new cases confirmed in Tokyo on April 4, people in their 30s represented the largest group of the infected, at 21, followed by those in their 20s and 40s, at 19 each.

The Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo announced on April 4 that a 23-year-old female officer with its Akasaka Police Station in Minato Ward was confirmed infected.

The MPD ordered 72 officers at the station who have had contact with her to stay home as a precaution. The department assigned more than 100 officers to the Akasaka Police Station from the MPD’s headquarters to fill the vacancies.