Tokyo confirmed 224 new cases of coronavirus infection on Thursday, marking a record high for the Japanese capital in a single day as authorities focused testing on the city's night-life districts.
TOKYO - Tokyo confirmed 224 new cases of coronavirus infection on Thursday, marking a record high for the Japanese capital in a single day as authorities focused testing on the city’s night-life districts.
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has attributed the recent uptick partly to an increase in testing, 3,400 of which resulted in Thursday’s confirmed cases. Koike, who won re-election as governor on Sunday, has promised to boost testing capacity to 10,000 a day. The trend among new cases was unchanged, with people in their 20s and 30s making about 75% of the new cases.
Thursday’s tally surpassed the previous high of 206 on April 17 when Tokyo and other major population centres were under a state of emergency.
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