Photo/Illutration Some pedestrians in Tokyo’s Ginza district raise parasols as protection from the sun's strong rays June 8. (Reina Kitamura)

Tokyo confirmed seven deaths from COVID-19 on June 9 and 440 fresh cases of novel coronavirus infection, down 47 from a week earlier.

Osaka Prefecture the same day reported 153 cases of infection, bringing its cumulative number to 101,342. Prefectural authorities also confirmed 27 related deaths among men and women in their 70s to centenarians, raising the overall toll for fatalities to 2,484.

The latest tally brought the capital's daily average for the week through June 9 to 401.6, or 80.3 percent of the figure for the preceding week, metropolitan government officials said.

The average number of diagnostic tests performed in Tokyo over the three days through June 8 stood at 6,321.3.

Of the 440 new cases, 135 patients were in their 20s, followed by 96 in their 30s. Seventy-two patients were in their 40s and 54 in their 50s. Patients aged 65 or older accounted for 29 cases.

The number of serious cases in Tokyo requiring ventilators or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, also known as an ECMO lung bypass machine, dropped by three from the previous day to 57 on June 9, the officials said.

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