THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
March 13, 2021 at 17:36 JST
New COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in Tokyo even though the capital remains under a state of emergency due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Tokyo metropolitan government officials reported 330 fresh COVID-19 cases on March 13, an increase over the 293 of the previous Saturday.
For the week ending March 13, the average daily figure was 278.9, a figure that was 4.3 percent higher than the previous week.
The metropolitan government has set a goal of keeping the average at 70 percent of the previous week or lower.
Forty patients displayed serious symptoms that require ventilators or an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) device, which circulates blood through an artificial lung. The figure represents an increase of three from the previous day.
Of the latest cases, 75 patients were in their 20s, 53 in their 40s and 46 in their 30s.
There were also 68 patients aged 65 or older.
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