THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
November 1, 2020 at 16:56 JST
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike speaks during a meeting on measures to deal with the novel coronavirus at the Tokyo metropolitan government building on Oct. 30. (The Asahi Shimbun)
Tokyo confirmed 116 new novel coronavirus cases on Nov. 1, the first day the count fell below 200 since Oct. 28, officials said.
Thirty-seven of the patients were in their 20s, followed by 20 in their 30s and 16 in their 40s. Those in their 60s, 70s and 80s together accounted for 17.
Tokyo reported 171 new COVID-19 cases on Oct. 28.
The Tokyo metropolitan government said the number of serious cases requiring ventilators or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, also known as an ECMO lung bypass machine, increased by one from the previous day to 34 on Nov. 1.
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