THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
March 20, 2021 at 16:55 JST
A man walks across the Kamome Bashi bridge in Tokyo on March 19. (AP Photo)
Fresh cases of COVID-19 continued to inch up in Tokyo even as the state of emergency for the novel coronavirus pandemic was to be lifted on March 21 for the capital and three neighboring prefectures.
Tokyo metropolitan government officials said there were 342 new cases on March 20, 12 more than the previous Saturday.
The daily average for the week ending March 20 was 298.7, which represented a 7.1 percent increase over the previous week.
Of the latest cases, 87 patients were in their 20s, 52 in their 30s and 50 in their 50s.
There were also 67 patients aged 65 and older.
Forty-seven 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 one from the previous day.
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