THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 9, 2021 at 18:05 JST
Pedestrians walk on the shopping street around JR Shibuya Station in Tokyo on April 1. (Keita Yamaguchi)
Tokyo confirmed 537 new COVID-19 cases on April 9, the third consecutive day the daily figure has exceeded 500, metropolitan government officials said.
The count was up 97 from the 440 cases reported on the previous Friday and pushed the daily average for the week in the capital to 440.9, or 115.6 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 537 cases, 173 patients were in their 20s, followed by 95 in their 30s, 94 in their 40s, 76 in their 50s and 35 from ages 10 to 19. There were 39 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, increased by two from the previous day to 43 on April 9, the officials said.
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