THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
March 30, 2021 at 16:50 JST
People wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the novel coronavirus walk under cherry blossoms in Tokyo on March 30. (AP Photo)
Tokyo reported 364 novel coronavirus infections on March 30, 27 more than the previous Tuesday, metropolitan health officials said.
The seven-day case average per day over the week through March 30 was 361.6, representing an increase of 17.4 percent from the preceding week, officials said.
Eighty-six new patients were in their 20s. Seventy-six were 65 or older, followed by 64 in their 30s, 55 in their 50s and 47 in their 40s.
The number of serious COVID-19 cases requiring ventilators or an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) device, which circulates blood through an artificial lung, stood at 39, one fewer than the day before.
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