THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
January 9, 2021 at 17:15 JST
Pedestrians cross an intersection in the fashionable Ginza district of Tokyo on Jan. 9, the first weekend since a state of emergency for the novel coronavirus pandemic was declared for the capital and three neighboring prefectures. (Kazuhiro Nagashima)
Tokyo reported more than 2,000 fresh daily cases of COVID-19 for the third straight day on Jan. 9.
The 2,268 new cases on Jan. 9 followed 2,447 on Jan. 7 and 2,392 on Jan. 8, a day after the government declared a month-long state of emergency for Tokyo and three neighboring prefectures.
Of the latest cases, 654 patients were in their 20s, 437 in their 30s, 337 in their 40s and 302 in their 50s, metropolitan government officials said. There were also 266 patients aged 65 or older.
One hundred twenty-nine patients were listed 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, tying the record figure set the previous day.
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