THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 28, 2021 at 17:55 JST
Pedestrians at the famed scramble crossing in Tokyo’s Shibuya district on April 25, when the third state of emergency was issued for the capital and three prefectures (Wataru Sekita)
Tokyo confirmed 925 new COVID-19 cases on April 28, the first time the daily count topped 900 since Jan. 28, when 1,065 cases were reported, according to metropolitan government officials.
The latest daily tally was up 82 from the 843 cases confirmed a week ago and brought the daily average for the week in the capital through April 28 to 758.4, or 114 percent of the figure for the preceding week.
Of the 925 cases, 255 patients were in their 20s, followed by 176 in their 30s, 160 in their 40s and 113 in their 50s. There were 94 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, dropped by two from the previous day to 53 on April 28, the officials said.
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