THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
February 4, 2021 at 17:36 JST
Many pedestrians are seen near JR Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Feb. 3, a day after the government announced an extension of the state of emergency for the capital and nine prefectures. (Yusuke Nagano)
Tokyo confirmed 734 new COVID-19 cases on Feb. 4, the seventh consecutive day the count has remained below 1,000, according to metropolitan government officials.
The capital had a daily average of 661.3 new cases over the week through Feb. 4. That is slightly below 70 percent of the average 987.4 cases reported over the previous week.
The metropolitan government recently set a goal of keeping the daily average of new novel coronavirus infections over the most recent week at 70 percent of the previous week or lower.
The number of serious cases in Tokyo requiring ventilators or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, also known as an ECMO lung bypass machine, dropped by 10 from the previous day to 115 on Feb. 4, the officials said.
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