THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 25, 2021 at 18:48 JST
Crowds return to the streets of Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Oct. 21, roughly three weeks after the COVID-19 state of emergency was lifted for the capital. (Kazumi Tako)
Tokyo reported 17 new cases of COVID-19 on Oct. 25, breaking the previous record low for this year of 19 set the day before.
The latest tally was down 12 from a week ago and brought the daily average of new infections in the capital over the week through Oct. 25 to 29.6, or 51.4 percent of the figure for the preceding week.
Metropolitan government officials also reported three deaths of a patient in his 50s, another in his 60s and the other in his 90s in Tokyo.
The number of serious cases in the capital requiring ventilators or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, also known as an ECMO lung bypass machine, dropped by two from the previous day to 20.
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