THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 13, 2020 at 17:03 JST
The Tokyo metropolitan government building, upper left, identifiable by its twin towers, and other high-rise buildings in the capital’s Shinjuku Ward (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Tokyo registered 166 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Oct. 13, a day after reporting fewer than 100 for a single day.
By age, the highest of the new cases, 37, were people in their 20s, followed by 33 patients in their 30s, 28 in their 40s and 24 in their 50s.
Patients aged 65 or older totaled 22.
The capital's number of serious cases stood at 27, up by two from the previous day. Tokyo defines serious cases as patients on a ventilator or on an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) lung bypass machine.
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