THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 27, 2021 at 17:00 JST
Commuters in Tokyo’s Marunouchi business district on April 26, the first weekday since the third state of emergency was issued for the capital and three prefectures (Shiro Nishihata)
Tokyo confirmed 828 new COVID-19 cases on April 27, up 117 from the 711 cases reported a week ago, according to metropolitan government officials.
The latest tally brings the daily average for the week through April 27 in the capital to 746.7 cases, which is 118.7 percent of the figure for the preceding week.
Of the 828 new cases, 220 patients are in their 20s, followed by 125 in their 40s and 119 each in their 30s and 50s. There are 144 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 55 on April 27, officials said.
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