THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 6, 2020 at 18:19 JST
Takeshita-dori street in Tokyo’s Harajuku district is packed with pedestrians on Oct. 4. (Wataru Sekita)
Tokyo confirmed 177 new COVID-19 cases on Oct. 6, jumping back into triple digits after dropping below 100 the day before, according to metropolitan government officials.
The capital saw 66 novel coronavirus infections on Oct. 5, the first time the daily count in Tokyo had fallen below 100 since Sept. 28, when 78 cases were reported.
It normally takes about three days for the results of polymerase chain reaction tests to be confirmed and compiled by the Tokyo metropolitan government.
Of the 177 new cases, 44 patients, the highest number, were in their 20s, followed by 38 in their 30s, 30 in their 40s and 23 in their 50s. Twenty-one people aged 65 or older 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, for patients stood at 25 on Oct. 6, the same as the previous day.
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