THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
June 13, 2021 at 18:30 JST
A delivery employee wheels packages on a cart past Tokyo Olympic posters on an office window in the capital on June 11. (AP Photo)
Tokyo reported six more deaths from COVID-19 on June 13 and 304 fresh cases of novel coronavirus infection, 47 fewer than a week ago.
The seven-day infection average over the week through June 13 came to 384.1, accounting for 90.1 percent of the figure for the preceding week, metropolitan health officials said.
The daily average of PCR tests over the three days through June 11 was 6,649.3.
Of the 304 new infections, 99 were patients in their 20s, followed by 63 in their 30s, 43 in their 40s and 28 in their 50s. Twenty-three patients were aged 65 or older.
Serious cases requiring ventilators or an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, an ECMO lung bypass machine, stood at 47, up one from the day before.
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