THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
May 13, 2021 at 18:53 JST
Commuters pass through the crosswalk in front of JR Osaka Station in Osaka on May 12. (Taku Hosokawa)
OSAKA--The Osaka prefectural government confirmed 761 new cases of COVID-19 and 33 deaths from the virus on May 13, health officials said.
The figures are down from the 851 infections and 50 deaths reported the previous day.
The daily counts bring the prefecture's accumulated total infections to 92,862 and the death toll to 1,868.
The number of new cases in a single day in Osaka reached a peak of 1,260 cases on April 28 and May 1.
It trended downward to 668 on May 5 and 747 on May 6. The figure then rose again to 974 cases on May 11.
Osaka reported its highest number of daily deaths, 55, on May 11
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