An employee of the beverage maker Suntory receives a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine shot at their office building as the company began workplace vaccinations on Monday, June 21, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

       TOKYO -- The Tokyo Metropolitan Government reported another 435 coronavirus infections in the Japanese capital on June 22.

       The new cases came after the Japanese capital recorded 236 infections on June 21.

       In the first week of June, Tokyo recorded an average of 422.9 new infections per day, before the figure declined to 380.4 in the second week, and rose slightly to 391.9 in the third. The figures were down from the daily average of 705.8 in May. Tokyo saw a monthly high of 39,664 new virus cases in January -- an average of 1,279.5 infections per day, and the highest single-month total since the pandemic began in spring 2020.

       By June 21, a total of 2,198 people had died of COVID-19 in Tokyo.

       To date, Tokyo has recorded 169,756 infections, the most of any of Japan's 47 prefectures. As of June 21, there were 1,282 COVID-19 patients in hospital, 47 with severe symptoms.

       (Mainichi)

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