THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 26, 2021 at 19:05 JST
The streets of Tokyo's upscale Ginza district bustle with pedestrians on Aug. 17. (Nobuo Fujiwara)
Tokyo reported 4,704 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Aug. 26, down 830 from a week ago, and 11 deaths among patients in their 50s to 90s.
The same day, Osaka Prefecture confirmed 2,830 new infections, exceeding the previous high for the second straight day.
The capital's latest tally brought the daily average of new infections in the metropolis over the week through Aug. 26 to 4,352.9, or 91.2 percent of the figure for the preceding week, according to metropolitan government officials.
The average number of diagnostic tests conducted in the capital over the three days through Aug. 25 stood at 17,634.7.
The number of serious cases in Tokyo requiring ventilators or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, also known as an ECMO lung bypass machine, dropped by one from the previous day to 276 on Aug. 26.
Of the 4,704 cases, 1,330 patients were in their 20s, followed by 896 in their 30s, 811 in their 40s and 512 in their 50s. Patients aged between 10 to 19 accounted for 481 cases, while 248 were 65 or older.
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