The Tokyo Metropolitan Government building (Mainichi/Makoto Ogawa)

       TOKYO -- The Japanese capital recorded 16 new COVID-19 cases on Nov. 20, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced, after reporting the same number of infections the day before.

       Tokyo saw a daily average of 20.14 infections in the first week of November, rising slightly to 22 in the second week. The capital registered 2,176 total COVID-19 cases in October for an average of 70.2 cases per day, a steep drop from September's 31,842 total cases (an average of 1,061.4 per day) and the 125,606 infections (an average of 4,051.8 per day) tallied in August.

       By Nov. 19, 3,161 people had died of COVID-19 in Tokyo since the pandemic began in Japan in the spring of 2020.

       Tokyo has recorded 382,069 infections to date, the most among Japan's 47 prefectures. As of Nov. 19, there were 90 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Tokyo, nine with severe symptoms.

       (Mainichi)

       Font Size S M L Print Timeline 0