THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 1, 2020 at 16:35 JST
The Tokyo metropolitan government building in the capital's Shinjuku Ward (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
The daily number of new COVID-19 cases in Tokyo continued to hover around the 200 level, with 235 novel coronavirus infections confirmed on Oct. 1, according to metropolitan government officials.
Sixty of the 235 new patients were in their 20s, followed by 48 in their 30s, 36 in their 40s, 31 in their 50s, 15 in their 60s, another 15 in their 80s, 14 in their 70s, nine in their teens, and three in their 90s.
Four children under the age of 10 also tested positive.
The metropolitan government said the number of serious cases requiring ventilators or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, also known as an ECMO lung bypass machine, rose by one from the previous day to 22.
On Sept. 30, 194 new infections were reported in Tokyo, following 212 on Sept. 29.
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