THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
February 20, 2021 at 16:35 JST
People wearing face masks walk through a shopping street built under rail tracks in Tokyo on Feb. 19. (AP Photo)
Tokyo on Feb. 20 marked two straight weeks with less than 500 fresh COVID-19 cases on a daily basis.
Metropolitan government officials confirmed 327 new cases in its latest update.
For the one-week period until Feb. 20, the average daily number was 355.7, or 91.6 percent of the figure for the previous week.
Of the latest cases, 69 were in their 20s, 50 in their 30s and 49 in their 40s. There were also 69 aged 65 and older.
Eighty-two patients displayed serious symptoms that require ventilators or an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) device, which circulates blood through an artificial lung. The figure represents a decrease of two from the previous day.
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