Photo/Illutration The Tokyo metropolitan government building in Shinjuku Ward, the command center for the capital's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)

Tokyo confirmed 100 new COVID-19 infections on Aug. 31, the second consecutive day new cases have stayed under 200 in the capital, according to the metropolitan government. 

“The number has been declining in the past three weeks or so,” a metropolitan government official said. “I think it is a positive effect of the measures such as shortening business hours of (restaurants and bars) and the (public’s) self-restraint to keep from going out (for nonessential purposes).”

The number of patients in serious condition in the capital fell by two to 32 from Aug. 30.

The metropolitan government defines serious cases as referring to patients on a ventilator or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, an ECMO lung bypass machine.

Thirty-one of the new patients were in their 20s, while 19 were in their 30s. Eighteen people who tested positive were in their 40s, 12 in their 50s, and six in their 60s.

Five children under the age 10 were confirmed infected.

Five people in their 70s and two in their 80s were also confirmed positive along with another patient whose age was reported as between 10 and 19. The remaining new patient was in his or her 90s.

The weekly average number of new cases in Tokyo was 197.7 as of Aug. 30, when the number fell below 200 for the first time since July 16.

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