THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 24, 2021 at 17:42 JST
People wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walk towards a train station in Tokyo on April 23. (AP Photo)
New coronavirus infections continued to climb in Tokyo with 876 fresh cases on April 24.
The figure was an increase of 117 over the previous Saturday, metropolitan government officials said.
For the one-week period ending April 24, the daily average of new cases was 714, a 25.5-percent increase over the previous week.
The last time the daily average for a week exceeded 700 was Feb. 3.
Of the latest patients, 248 were in their 20s, 178 in their 30s, 134 in their 40s and 100 in their 50s.
There were also 104 aged 65 or older.
Fifty-one patients displayed serious symptoms that require ventilators or an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) device, which circulates blood through an artificial lung. The figure represents a decrease of one from the previous day.
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