THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 22, 2021 at 17:01 JST
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, second from left, visits an “izakaya” pub in the capital’s Shinjuku Ward on April 19 to check for its measures against the novel coronavirus. (Pool)
Tokyo confirmed 861 new COVID-19 cases on April 22, the second straight day the daily count has topped 800, according to metropolitan government officials.
The figure was up 132 from the 729 cases reported a week ago and brought the daily average for the week through April 22 to 684.1, or 130.7 percent of the figure for the preceding week.
Of the 861 cases, 261 patients were in their 20s, followed by 134 in their 30s, 132 in their 40s, 103 in their 50s, 68 in their 60s, and 65 between 10 and 19. There were 105 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, remained unchanged from the previous day at 48 on April 22, the officials said.
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