THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
June 24, 2021 at 18:32 JST
Only a few pedestrians are seen roaming the streets of the Ameyoko shopping area in Tokyo's Ueno district on June 21, a day after a state of emergency was lifted in the capital. (Hiroaki Takeda)
Tokyo continued to show signs of another rebound in COVID-19 cases on June 24, with metropolitan government officials reporting 570 fresh cases, up 118 from the previous Thursday, and three more deaths from the disease.
The daily average of infections for the week ending June 24 was 439.6, a 13.8-percent increase over the previous week.
The three-day average of government-administered COVID-19 tests as of June 23 was 8,833.3.
Of the latest cases, 156 patients were in their 20s, 106 in their 30s, 102 in their 40s and 75 in their teens. Another 25 were aged 65 or older.
The capital's number of COVID-19 patients with serious symptoms requiring ventilators or other equipment to help them breathe stood at 43, down one from the day before.
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