THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
January 12, 2021 at 16:45 JST
People wearing face masks to protect against the coronavirus walk through an underpass in Tokyo on Jan. 12. (AP Photo)
Tokyo registered 970 new COVID-19 patients on Jan. 12, the first time in eight days that the daily count dipped below 1,000, metropolitan health officials said.
The last time the number of new cases stood in triple digits was on Jan. 4, when 884 new infections were reported.
Serious cases in the capital, however, shattered the previous record, hitting 144, up 13 from the day before.
Tokyo designates patients requiring ventilators or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, an ECMO lung bypass machine, as serious cases.
Of the 970 newly confirmed infections, patients in their 20s accounted for 249 cases, more than any other age group. They were followed by 184 patients in their 30s, 138 in their 50s and 128 in their 40s. There were 149 patients who are 65 or older.
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