THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
November 14, 2021 at 18:33 JST
Mount Takaosan, a popular landmark on the outskirts of Tokyo, is inundated with visitors reveling in spectacular views and clean air on Nov. 3 after the capital’s COVID-19 new cases trajectory began to level off. (Makoto Takada)
Tokyo marked its sixth consecutive day of a week-on-week increase in COVID-19 cases Nov. 14, metropolitan health officials said. The latest tally, 22, is up one from the previous Sunday.
The seven-day average of new cases through Nov. 14 came to 24.6, up by 22.4 percent from the figure of the preceding week, marking the sixth consecutive day of an increase from a week earlier.
The number of serious cases as defined by the metropolitan government, which concerns patients on respirators or ECMO heart-lung bypass machines, remained at 10, the same as the day before, officials said.
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