Photo/Illutration Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike holds a news conference at the metropolitan government office on June 10 after a meeting regarding novel coronavirus infections. (Yoshitaka Unezawa)

Eight more people died from COVID-19 in Tokyo while the daily number of newly confirmed infections continued its downward trend, metropolitan government officials said on June 11.

The latest daily number of new COVID-19 cases was 435, down by 37 from a week ago. The daily average for the week through June 11 in the capital was 386.4 cases, or 84.9 percent of the figure for the preceding week, according to the officials.

The daily average number of tests for the novel coronavirus over the three days through June 10 stood at 7,609.3.

Of the 435 cases reported on June 11, 167 patients were in their 20s and 79 in their 30s. Seventy-one patients were in their 40s and 39 in their 50s. There were 29 patients aged 65 or older.

The number of COVID-19 patients in serious condition requiring ventilators or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, also known as an ECMO lung bypass machine, was 51, down by four from the previous day, the officials said.

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