THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 8, 2020 at 17:25 JST
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, left, names Mitsuo Kaku as an adviser to the metropolitan government. Kaku also heads the board of experts for the metropolitan government's version of a Center for Disease Control and Prevention. (Chiaki Ogihara)
New COVID-19 cases in Tokyo on Oct. 8 surged over 200 for the first time in five days.
Tokyo metropolitan government officials said there were 248 new cases in the capital. The last time there were more than 200 cases in Tokyo was Oct. 3 when 207 were reported.
Of the latest new cases, 61 patients were in their 30s, 49 in their 20s, 42 in their 40s and 39 in their 50s.
There were 34 patients aged 65 or older.
Twenty-two patients on Oct. 8 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 two from the previous day.
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