THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 10, 2021 at 17:55 JST
Pedestrians in the Shinbashi entertainment district of Tokyo on April 9, shortly after the central government decided to apply pre-emergency measures from April 12 for the capital. (Ryo Ikeda)
Tokyo reported 570 fresh COVID-19 cases on April 10, marking the fourth straight day for the figure to remain above the 500 mark in the capital.
The figure is 124 higher than the previous Saturday, according to metropolitan government officials.
For the week ending April 10, the daily average of new cases came to 458.6, a 19.5-percent increase over the previous week.
Of the latest cases, 162 patients were in their 20s, 117 in their 30s and 96 in their 40s. Forty-eight patients were aged 65 or older.
Thirty-seven patients displayed serious symptoms that require ventilators or an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) device, which circulates blood through an artificial lung. The figure represents a decrease of six from the previous day.
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