Photo/Illutration Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, far left, inspects the COVID-19 vaccination room set up in the Tokyo metropolitan government building on June 18. (Takuya Isayama)

For the third straight day, the number of new COVID-19 cases in Tokyo increased over the same day of the previous week.

Metropolitan government officials said there were 453 fresh cases on June 18, or 18 more than the previous Friday.

The daily average of new cases for the week ending June 18 came to 389, a 0.7-percent increase over the previous week.

Two more deaths from COVID-19 were also reported June 18. The three-day average as of June 17 for government-administered tests for the virus was 7,489.7.

Of the latest cases, 145 patients were in their 20s, 93 in their 30s, 86 in their 40s and 41 in their 50s. Patients aged between 20 and 49 made up about 70 percent of the total.

Twenty-five patients were aged 65 or older.

Officials said 42 COVID-19 patients had symptoms serious enough to warrant use of a ventilator or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, also known as an ECMO lung bypass machine, in order to breathe, up two over the previous day.

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