Photo/Illutration People stand in a long line to pose for photos with the five-ring Olympic emblem in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward on Aug. 9, the day after the Closing Ceremony, as the capital is experiencing the largest wave of infections to date. (Kazuhiro Nagashima)

Tokyo reported 2,884 COVID-19 new cases on Aug. 9, the highest number for a Monday, and three new deaths from the disease, metropolitan health officials said.

The latest daily count was up 689 from the previous Monday and significantly lower than the 4,066 cases recorded the day before.

The seven-day average of new cases over the week through Aug. 9 came to 4,135.4, rising by 28.7 percent from the preceding week.

Three patients died from COVID-19, Tokyo officials said.

Of the latest count of newly confirmed infections, patients in their 20s accounted for 982. They were followed by 566 in their 30s, 436 in their 40s, 318 in their 50s and 262 teenagers.

The number of patients 65 or older totaled 97.

Osaka Prefecture logged 995 new cases on Aug. 9, the first time in seven days for the daily count to fall below 1,000. But the figure was more than double the number for the previous Monday.

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