THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
February 11, 2021 at 16:43 JST
A man wearing a protective mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus takes an escalator in an expansive public space in Tokyo on Feb. 10. (AP Photo)
For the fifth consecutive day, Tokyo reported fewer than 500 new COVID-19 cases in its daily count.
Metropolitan government officials said there were 434 confirmed cases on Feb. 11.
For the one-week period through Feb. 11, the daily average of new cases was 465.4. That amounts to 70.4 percent of the previous week’s daily average.
One of the barometers set up by the central government to lift the state of emergency is falling below a daily average of 500 new cases. The latest number meets that benchmark.
In the capital, there were 103 patients with serious symptoms that require ventilators or an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) device, which circulates blood through an artificial lung. The figure remains the same as the previous day.
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