THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
March 6, 2022 at 18:37 JST
A street scene in Tokyo’s Ginza district as the capital and other parts of the Kanto region marked the first spring storm on March 5 (Ryo Ikeda)
Tokyo reported 9,289 fresh cases of COVID-19 on March 6, down by 1,032 from Sunday a week ago.
But the overall trend of newly confirmed infections remains flat, metropolitan health officials said.
The daily average of new cases over the week through March 6 came to 11,000.1, or 98.7 percent of the figure for the preceding seven days.
Of the latest daily count of new cases, children aged 9 or younger accounted for nearly 20 percent of new cases, making them the largest group. They were followed by 1,571 patients in their 40s, 1,540 in their 30s and 1,407 in their 20s.
Authorities reported 12 fatalities due to COVID-19.
The number of serious cases as defined by the metropolitan government, meaning those who require ventilators or ECMO heart-lung bypass machines, stood at 71.
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