THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 23, 2021 at 16:50 JST
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike at a news conference on April 23 (Yoshitaka Unezawa)
Tokyo logged 759 new COVID-19 cases on April 23, up 92 from the 667 cases reported on the previous Friday, according to metropolitan government officials.
The new cases brought the daily average for the week in the capital through April 23 to 697.3, or 128.7 percent of the figure for the preceding week.
Of the 759 cases, 226 patients were in their 20s, followed by 145 in their 30s, 115 in their 40s and 96 in their 50s. There were 61 new 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, increased by four from the previous day to 52 on April 23, the officials said.
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