COVID-19 tracker: Tokyo logs 1,613 new cases
The daily number of new COVID-19 cases in Tokyo came to 1,613 on Friday, an increase of 172 from a week before.
The capital recorded three new deaths among COVID-19 patients. The number of patients with severe symptoms under its criteria stood at four, unchanged from the previous day.
The seven-day average of new cases stood at 1,445.1, up 16.8% from a week earlier.
On Thursday, Japan confirmed 11,844 new COVID-19 cases, an increase of about 1,300 from a week before.
Twenty-nine deaths were newly reported in the country, while the number of severe cases fell by 10 from Wednesday to 48.
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