THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 15, 2021 at 16:51 JST
Commuters at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo on April 12 (Shinnosuke Ito)
Tokyo confirmed 729 new COVID-19 cases on April 15, 138 more than the previous day, metropolitan government officials said.
It marked the first time the daily count has exceeded 700 since Feb. 4, when the capital was under a state of emergency.
The 729 cases pushed the daily average for the week in Tokyo to 523.4, or 122.6 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 15, 203 patients are in their 20s, followed by 145 in their 30s and 122 in their 40s. Eighty-three 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, stood at 37, four fewer than the previous day.
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