Photo/Illutration A sales clerk is protected by a plastic sheet while promoting chocolates at a department store in Tokyo’s Ginza district on Feb. 13. (Azusa Kato)

Tokyo confirmed fewer than 500 fresh cases of COVID-19 for the eighth straight day on Feb. 14.

The latest tally, 371, brings the daily average for the week ending Feb. 14 to 380, or 66.4 percent of the figure for the preceding week, Tokyo metropolitan government officials said.