THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
January 28, 2021 at 16:42 JST
Donning a mask and face shield, a female attendant receives a worshipper praying for the healthy birth of a child at Suitengu shrine in Tokyo’s Chuo Ward on Jan. 26. (Aya Shioiri)
Tokyo reported 1,064 new COVID-19 cases on Jan. 28, metropolitan health officials said, adding that the number of serious cases dipped slightly to 150.
The latest daily case figure for the capital rose above 1,000 from 973 the day before, but marked the lowest for any Thursday in January.
Daily counts on Thursdays for Tokyo tend to be the highest because more tests are conducted at the beginning of the week and the results usually are returned around that day.
Of the 1,064 new cases, 178 patients were in their 20s, followed by 173 in their 30s and 154 in their 40s.
Serious cases on Jan. 28 were down nine from the previous day.
Tokyo designates serious cases as patients requiring ventilators or an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) device, which circulates blood through an artificial lung.
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