THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 29, 2020 at 17:09 JST
A geisha from Tokyo’s Akasaka entertainment district shows how to converse by covering her face with a folding fan at an event on Oct. 28 to raise awareness about precautions against the novel coronavirus. (Eriko Noda)
Tokyo confirmed 221 new COVID-19 cases on Oct. 29, the first time in five days the count topped 200, according to metropolitan government officials.
The last time the capital’s daily tally exceeded 200 was on Oct. 24, when 203 new cases were reported. The case count had remained well below 200 for four consecutive days in Tokyo through Oct. 28, when 171 novel coronavirus infections were tallied.
The Tokyo metropolitan government said the number of serious cases requiring ventilators or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, also known as an ECMO lung bypass machine, dropped by one from the previous day to 29 on Oct. 29.
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