THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
March 31, 2021 at 17:45 JST
Sophomore students pose for a photo at a ceremony that Sophia University in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward held on March 30 as their entrance ceremony was canceled last year due to the pandemic. (Tsubasa Setoguchi)
Tokyo reported 414 novel coronavirus infections on March 31, six fewer than the previous Wednesday, metropolitan health officials said.
It marked the first time since March 19 that the number of new cases in the capital fell below the count from the same day of the previous week.
The seven-day daily case average for the week through March 31 was 360.7, representing an increase of 16.5 percent from the preceding week, officials said.
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 45, six more than the day before.
Of the 414 new cases, 115 patients were in their 20s. Sixty-six were in their 40s, followed by 64 in their 30s and 49 in their 50s.
Seventy-one were 65 or older.
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