THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 2, 2021 at 16:25 JST
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike attends a meeting of the metropolitan government’s expert panel monitoring the spread of the novel coronavirus in the capital on April 1. (Momoko Ikegami)
Tokyo confirmed 440 new COVID-19 cases on April 2, up 64 from the 376 reported a week ago, according to metropolitan government officials.
The latest count pushed the daily average for the week in the capital through April 2 to 381.4, or 115.5 percent of the preceding week.
The metropolitan government has set a weekly goal of reducing the average to 70 percent of the previous week.
Of the 440 cases, 115 patients were in their 20s, followed by 78 in their 40s and 63 each in their 30s and 50s. There were 61 patients aged 65 or older.
The number of serious cases in Tokyo requiring ventilators or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, also known as an ECMO lung bypass machine, dropped by one from the previous day to 43 on April 2, the officials said.
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