Photo/Illutration The Tokyo metropolitan government building in the capital’s Shinjuku Ward (Asahi Shimbun file photo)

Tokyo on April 15 reported its fourth straight day of decline in new COVID-19 cases from the previous week’s figure, as well as seven deaths of patients in their 60s to 90s.

The capital had 6,768 newly confirmed novel coronavirus infections, down 1,344 from the previous Friday.

The daily average of new cases over the week through April 15 in Tokyo was 7,310.4, or 98.1 percent of the average for the preceding week.

People in their 20s represented the largest age group of the new patients, at 1,364, followed by 1,334 in their 30s, 1,113 in their 40s, 1,015 under 10 and 826 between the ages 10 and 19.

Additionally, 359 people 65 or older tested positive.

The occupancy rate of hospital beds for COVID-19 patients in Tokyo was 27.6 percent, while 6.8 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 a state of emergency for Tokyo if the occupancy rate of beds for seriously ill patients was between 30 and 40 percent.

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

Their number dropped by one from April 14 to 20.

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