THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 12, 2020 at 18:28 JST
The Tokyo metropolitan government building in the capital’s Shinjuku Ward (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Tokyo registered 78 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Oct. 12, the first day in a week that the count fell under 100.
The last time the number was in double digits was on Oct. 5, when 66 new cases were reported.
Of the new cases for Oct. 12, patients in their 20s and 40s stood at 20 each, followed by 18 people in their 30s and nine in their 50s. Three are aged 65 or older.
The number of serious cases stood at 25, up by one from the day before. Serious cases refers to patients on a ventilator or on an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, an ECMO lung bypass machine.
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