THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 14, 2021 at 17:21 JST
Central Tokyo in June 2019 (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
New COVID-19 cases in Tokyo surged by 36 from the same day a week ago to 591 on April 14, metropolitan government officials said.
The 591 cases pushed the daily average for the week in the capital to 497.1 cases, or 119.2 percent of the figure for the preceding week--far higher than the metropolitan government’s goal of reducing the average to 70 percent of the previous week.
Of the new cases reported on April 14, 183 patients are in their 20s, followed by 103 in their 30s and 101 in their 40s. Fifty-six of the new patients are 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 at 41 on April 14, the same as the previous day.
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