THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
December 9, 2020 at 16:36 JST
A woman in traditional Japanese kimono with Christmas decorations wears a face mask as protection against the novel coronavirus at a Ginza shopping street on Dec. 9 in Tokyo. (AP Photo)
Tokyo announced 572 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Dec. 9, its second highest daily figure behind the record 584 confirmed on Dec. 5.
A record 103 new patients were 65 or older, Tokyo metropolitan government officials said.
Fifty-nine 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. The figure was a decrease of one from the previous day.
Aside from the 103 cases, 130 patients were in their 20s, 116 in their 30s, 80 in their 40s and 71 in their 50s.
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