Tokyo Metropolitan Government headquarters (Mainichi/Makoto Ogawa)

       TOKYO -- Japan's capital reported 4,704 COVID-19 infections on Aug. 26, its third day in a row over 4,000 cases and the 19th day this month over the mark.

       Tokyo registered 4,228 new infections on Aug. 25, and remains under a fourth state of emergency as it battles a fifth wave of coronavirus cases.

       In the first week of August, Tokyo recorded an average of 3,893 new cases per day. The figure rose to 4,231.1 in the second week, and 4,719 in the third, up from the daily average of 1,420.5 for the month of July, when the capital registered a total of 44,034 new infections.

       By Aug. 25, a total of 2,404 people had died of COVID-19 in Tokyo since the pandemic began in the spring of 2020.

       Tokyo has recorded 327,861 infections to date, the most of any of Japan's 47 prefectures. As of Aug. 25, there were 4,154 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Tokyo, 277 with severe symptoms.

       (Mainichi)

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