THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
January 2, 2022 at 18:45 JST
Shoppers buy lucky bags at Seibu department store in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district on Jan. 1. (Kenji Izawa)
Tokyo reported 84 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Jan. 2, surpassing the 80 mark for the first time since October and 41 more than the previous Sunday, metropolitan health officials said.
The last time the daily count topped 80 was Oct. 9, when 82 new cases were reported.
The seven-day average of new cases for the week through Jan. 2 came to 66, up 88 percent from the figure for the preceding week.
One patient displayed symptoms serious enough to warrant special breathing machine, health officials said, noting that no new death from COVID-19 had occurred.
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