THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 10, 2020 at 17:54 JST
Pedestrians cross a street near Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Oct. 10 even as a typhoon approached bringing heavy rain. (Nobuo Fujiwara)
Tokyo confirmed 249 fresh cases of new coronavirus infection on Oct. 10, the third straight day of the figure being above the 200 mark.
Of the new cases, 64 patients were in their 20s, 42 in their 30s, 32 in their 40s and 31 in their 50s. Twenty-three teenagers were also infected and 40 patients were aged 65 or older, Tokyo metropolitan government officials said.
Twenty-four patients on Oct. 10 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, an increase of three from the previous day.
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