THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 8, 2021 at 16:25 JST
A man wearing a protective mask to help curb the spread of the novel coronavirus waits for his train on April 7 in Tokyo. (AP Photo)
Tokyo confirmed 545 new COVID-19 cases on April 8, the second straight day the daily figure has exceeded 500, metropolitan government officials said.
The count was up by 70 from the 475 cases reported on the previous Thursday and pushed the daily average for the week in the capital to 427.0, or 114.7 percent of the figure for the preceding week.
The metropolitan government has set a goal of reducing the weekly average to 70 percent of the previous week.
Of the 545 cases, 173 patients were in their 20s, followed by 103 in their 30s, 86 in their 40s, and 66 in their 50s. There were 60 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, remained unchanged from the previous day at 41 on April 8, the officials said.
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