THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
September 14, 2020 at 17:28 JST
The Tokyo metropolitan government building in the capital's Shinjuku Ward (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
The Tokyo metropolitan government reported 80 new COVID-19 cases on Sept. 14, the first time the figure has fallen below 100 in a week.
Patients in their 20s and 30s accounted for 17 and 16 of the cases, respectively. Fifteen patients were in their 50s, 13 in their 40s and five each were in their 60s and 70s.
Four patients were teenagers, and two were under the age of 10.
Two patients were in their 80s and one was ninetysomething.
The metropolitan government also said serious cases, those on a ventilator or on an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, an ECMO lung bypass machine, fell to 22 compared with 24 on Sept. 13.
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