THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
September 26, 2020 at 19:14 JST
The Tokyo metropolitan government building in the capital's Shinjuku Ward (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
For the first time in a week, Tokyo reported more than 200 fresh COVID-19 cases.
The latest figure, according to the Tokyo metropolitan government, was 270 new cases on Sept. 26. The last time the capital reported more than 200 cases was Sept. 19 when there were 218.
The sharp increase on Sept. 26 may be due to the end of the four-day weekend on Sept. 22 and the resumption of normal testing for COVID-19 from the following day.
It normally takes about three days for results of polymerase chain reaction tests to be confirmed and compiled by the Tokyo metropolitan government.
Of the latest cases on Sept. 26, 62 patients were in their 20s, while 52 were in their 30s, 51 in their 40s, 35 in their 50s, 20 in their 70s, 18 in their 60s, 11 in their 80s and 10 under the age of 10.
There were nine teenagers among the new cases and two in their 90s.
Twenty-nine patients on Sept. 26 were classified as having severe symptoms that require the use of a ventilator or an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) device, which circulates blood through an artificial lung, a decrease of one from the previous day.
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