THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
September 30, 2020 at 18:46 JST
Tourists head to Tokyo Station on Sept. 19, the first day of a four-day holiday weekend. (Kazuyuki Ito)
Tokyo reported 194 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Sept. 30, extending a trend of around 200 new patients per day.
Tokyo metropolitan health officials reported 212 new cases the previous day.
Most new patients were in their 20s, accounting for 46 cases, while 44 patients were in their 30s and 32 in their 40s.
Twenty-one were in their 50s and 12 were in their 70s. Eleven of those newly infected were in their 60s and 10 were teenagers.
There were also nine patients in their 80s, seven under age 10 and two in their 90s.
Serious cases stood at 21, down by two from the previous day.
The metropolitan government classifies cases as serious in which patients are on ventilators or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, also known as an ECMO lung bypass machine.
Officials also revised down the number of new cases reported on Sept. 24 to 193 from 195. Cases for Sept. 26 were also lowered to 269 from 270.
The figures were revised as three people tested negative in additional tests, officials said.
The revisions brought Tokyo's overall total of coronavirus cases to 25,738 as of Sept. 30.
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