THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
January 20, 2022 at 19:05 JST
People wearing face masks walk on a street lined with bars and restaurants in Tokyo on Jan. 19. (AP Photo)
The Tokyo metropolitan government confirmed 8,638 new COVID-19 cases on Jan. 20, shattering the earlier record of 7,377 set the previous day.
The Jan. 20 figure, the second straight daily record, is 2.7 times higher than the 3,124 cases marked on the previous Thursday.
The capital’s count sent the daily average of new cases for the week through Jan. 20 to 5,386.1, about 2.7 times higher than the average of 1,503.4 for the preceding week.
Nine COVID-19 patients in Tokyo were in serious condition, requiring a ventilator or ECMO heart-lung bypass machine, down by one from the previous day.
Other prefectures also reported single-day records in newly confirmed infections.
Kyoto Prefecture saw 1,320 new cases on Jan. 20, breaking the record of 1,202 logged the previous day. It was the third straight single-day record for the prefecture.
Hokkaido reported 1,437 new COVID-19 cases, topping the old record of 1,170 cases confirmed the previous day.
Hiroshima Prefecture set a record with 1,569 new cases, surpassing the previous high of 1,277 cases on Jan. 16.
Osaka Prefecture reported 5,933 new infections, down from its record of 6,101 set the previous day.
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