Photo/Illutration A police officer controls traffic as members of local police and fire departments arrive to receive Moderna coronavirus jabs at a temporary mass vaccination center at the site of the former Tsukiji fish market on June 8. (AP Photo)

Tokyo confirmed 10 deaths from COVID-19 on June 8, along with 369 fresh cases of novel coronavirus infection, down 102 from a week ago.

The latest tally brought the daily average for the week in the capital through June 8 to 408.3 cases, or 76.0 percent of the figure for the preceding week, according to metropolitan government officials.

The daily average of administrative testing for the three days through June 7 stood at 5,186.3.

Of the latest 369 cases, 114 patients were in their 20s and 72 in their 30s. Fifty-eight patients were in their 40s and 41 in their 50s. There were 30 patients aged 65 or older.

The number of serious cases in the capital requiring ventilators or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, also known as an ECMO lung bypass machine, dropped by one from the previous day to 60, the officials said.

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