April 8, 2021 at 18:07 JST
The Tower of the Sun is illuminated in red in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on April 7 following the Osaka prefectural government’s issuance of its second “red alert” earlier in the day over the coronavirus pandemic. (Satoru Ogawa)
OSAKA--Osaka Prefecture logged a record 905 COVID-19 new cases on April 8, marking a new daily high for the third day in a row, prefectural officials said.
The count brought the accumulated total of coronavirus cases in the prefecture to 57,597.
Officials also said there were three new deaths, raising the overall deaths from the coronavirus in the prefecture to 1,202.
The prefecture reported daily record highs of 719 new cases on April 6 and 878 on April 7. The record numbers in recent days have exceeded the daily count for Tokyo, which had 545 on April 8.
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