THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
December 30, 2020 at 17:13 JST
People doing grocery shopping to prepare for New Year’s holidays flood into the popular Ameyoko market in Tokyo's Ueno district on Dec. 29. (Kazuhiro Nagashima)
Tokyo reported 944 new COVID-19 cases on Dec. 30, breaking 900 for the second time, after the nationwide tally for newly confirmed infections exceeded 3,000 again.
The number in the capital was second only to the 949 new cases reported four days earlier, metropolitan government officials said. It was also the 16th consecutive day that a record was set for each day of the week.
The number of serious cases, which require ventilators or an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation device, rose by one from the previous day to 85.
The rate of positive tests for the virus in Tokyo hit a high of 8.4 percent as of Dec. 27, compared with between 3 and 4 percent in early November.
Nationwide, 3,609 new COVID-19 cases were reported as of 11:30 p.m. on Dec. 29, the first time in three days for the daily total to top 3,000. In addition, 59 more deaths from the disease were confirmed.
The number of serious cases around the nation rose to 675 on Dec. 28, officials said.
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