THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
January 14, 2021 at 17:12 JST
A restaurant in Tokyo’s Hamamatsucho district that opened shortly before the first state of emergency was declared in April 2020 sells bento boxed meals for 500 yen ($4.80) each on Jan. 14 under the second state of emergency. (Erina Ito)
Tokyo confirmed 1,502 new COVID-19 cases on Jan. 14, the second straight day the daily count topped 1,000, according to metropolitan government officials.
The high count follows the 1,433 cases reported the day before, after 970 novel coronavirus infections were logged on Jan. 12, the first time in eight days the tally dropped below 1,000 in the capital.
The number of serious cases requiring ventilators or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, also known as an ECMO lung bypass machine, dropped by six from the previous day to 135 on Jan. 14 in Tokyo, the officials said.
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