THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 31, 2020 at 18:00 JST
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike addresses an Oct. 30 metropolitan government task force meeting concerning testing for COVID-19. (Chiaki Ogihara)
Tokyo reported more than 200 fresh COVID-19 cases for the third straight day on Oct. 31.
Of the 215 newly confirmed cases, metropolitan government officials said 51 patients were in their 30s, 42 in their 20s, 36 in their 40s and 29 in their 50s.
Infections were confirmed among 19 patients in their 60s, 13 in their 70s and 11 in their 80s.
Ten teenagers and four children under the age of 4 were also confirmed with COVID-19.
Thirty-three patients 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.
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