Photo/Illutration Vietnamese women living in Japan check out photos they took by cherry blossoms in Tokyo on April 7. (AP Photo)

Tokyo reported 8,753 new COVID-19 cases on April 7, up 527 from the previous Thursday.

Cases have remained high in the capital. The daily average of new cases over the week through April 7 was 7,433.3, or 98.7 percent of the average for the preceding week.

Six patients over 80 died of causes related to COVID-19, metropolitan authorities said.

Of the 8,753 new cases, people in their 20s represented the largest age group of new patients, at 1,970.

They were followed by 1,648 patients in their 30s, 1,520 in their 40s, 1,196 children under 10, 1,023 aged 10 to 19 and 776 in their 50s. Officials said 443 patients were 65 or older.

Officials said 13 were diagnosed as being infected with the novel coronavirus without being tested.

The occupancy rate of hospital beds for COVID-19 patients in Tokyo was 24.9 percent, while 8.3 percent of hospital beds for severely ill patients were filled, officials said.

The metropolitan government said it would consider asking the central government to issue another state of emergency for Tokyo if the occupancy rate of beds for seriously ill patients hits between 30 and 40 percent.

Tokyo defines seriously ill patients as those requiring ventilators or ECMO heart-lung bypass machines.

The number of seriously ill patients stood at 29, unchanged from April 6.

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