THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 28, 2021 at 19:00 JST
A long line forms Aug. 28 in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward as young people seek to get vaccinated against COVID-19. (Keita Yamaguchi)
There was good news and bad on the COVID-19 front in Tokyo on Aug. 28. The number of fresh cases continued to fall, but no similar trend was evident in terms of related fatalities or patients suffering serious symptoms.
A man in his 20s was among 19 Tokyo residents who died the same day, metropolitan government officials said. Serious cases of patients requiring the use of a ventilator or other equipment to breathe hit a record 297, up three from the previous day.
Fresh cases of infection in the capital on Aug. 28 came to 3,581, a decrease of 1,493 over the previous Saturday. The daily average of cases for the week ending Aug. 28 came to 3,971.3, or 84.2 percent of the figure for the previous week.
Of the latest patients, 988 were in their 20s, 701 in their 30s, 574 in their 40s and 433 in their 50s. Officials said 371 patients were aged between 10 and 19 and that 156 were 65 or older.
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