THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
January 9, 2022 at 18:55 JST
Commuters at a station platform in Tokyo on Jan. 7 (AP Photo)
Tokyo reported 1,223 new COVID-19 cases on Jan. 9, surpassing 1,000 for the second straight day.
The latest daily count was 14.5 times the 84 cases confirmed on Sunday of the preceding week, bringing the seven-day average of new cases over the week through Jan. 9 to 664.9, compared with 66.0 over the previous seven-day period.
Of the newly confirmed cases, 504 patients were in their 20s, or more than 40 percent of the total. They were followed by 232 patients in their 30s, 159 in their 40s, 102 in their 50s and 100 teenagers.
The number of serious patients, those requiring ventilators or ECMO heart-lung bypass machines, came to four, the same as the day before.
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