THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
December 16, 2020 at 18:34 JST
Drinking and eating establishments have been asked to cut their business hours to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. Photo was taken in Tokyo’s Shinbashi district on Dec. 1. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
New cases of COVID-19 in Tokyo hit their highest daily figure of 678 on Dec. 16. Kanagawa and Aichi prefectures also both marked daily records with 287 and 248 cases, respectively.
In Tokyo, 69 people were deemed to be serious as of Dec. 16.
The previous daily record of 621 cases for Tokyo was marked Dec. 12.
Patients 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, were nine short of the record 78 after the state of emergency was lifted in late May.
Of the 678 new cases in the capital, 184 patients were in their 20s, 123 in their 30s, 107 in their 40s and 94 were aged 65 and older, according to the Tokyo metropolitan government.
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