THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 16, 2021 at 18:10 JST
People wearing masks to help curb the spread of the novel coronavirus walk on a street in Tokyo on April 15. (AP Photo)
Tokyo confirmed 667 new COVID-19 cases on April 16, an increase of 130 from a week ago, as the capital fell well short of its weekly target, according to metropolitan government officials.
The latest tally brought the daily average for the week in Tokyo to 542, or 122.9 percent of the figure for the preceding week. The percentage remains far higher than the metropolitan government’s goal of reducing the average to 70 percent of the previous week.
Of the 667 cases, 200 patients were in their 20s, followed by 132 in their 30s and 119 in their 40s. There were 69 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, rose by six from the previous day to 43 on April 16, the officials said.
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