THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
February 5, 2021 at 17:46 JST
A doctor prepares for accepting a patient requiring emergency care at a hospital in Tokyo in December 2020. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Tokyo confirmed 577 new COVID-19 cases on Feb. 5, the eighth consecutive day the count remained below 1,000, according to metropolitan government officials.
The capital marked a daily average of 619.7 new cases over the week through Feb. 5. That is roughly 66 percent of the average 943.6 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, rose by two from the previous day to 117 on Feb. 5, the officials said.
Of the 577 cases, 107 patients were in their 20s, followed by 83 each in their 30s and 40s, and 77 in their 50s. There were 145 patients aged 65 or older.
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