Photo/Illutration Security guards display posters of a district ordinance banning bike riding on the sidewalk in the area as they walk along Ginza-dori avenue in the Ginza shopping district of Tokyo on Aug. 27. (AP Photo)

Authorities in Osaka Prefecture on Aug. 29 reported 2,389 fresh cases of COVID-19, the most for a Sunday, while Tokyo confirmed 3,081 infections and 14 new deaths from the disease.

In Tokyo, the seven-day average of newly confirmed infections over the week through Aug. 29 came to 3,784, representing 80 percent of the figure for the preceding week.

The number of patients requiring the use of a ventilator or ECMO heart-lung bypass machine, which the Tokyo metropolitan government deems as serious cases, totaled 296, down by one compared with a record 297 the day before.

The 14 patients who died were in their 40s and upward, metropolitan health officials said.

Of the 3,081 new cases in Tokyo, patients in their 20s accounted for 817, followed by 595 in their 30s, 531 in their 40s and 367 teenagers.

Officials said 340 patients were in their 50s and 150 were aged 65 or older.

In Osaka Prefecture, authorities said there were two fatalities involving a man in his 50s and one in his 70s.

Prefectural officials said 36.9 percent of hospital beds set aside for COVID-19 patients in serious condition were filled, while the comparable figure for patients with mild or modest symptoms was 84.3 percent.

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