A couple wearing face masks walk through a path lined with restaurants during lunch time in Tokyo, Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

       TOKYO -- Japan's capital recorded another 1,242 new COVID-19 cases on Sept. 10, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced.

       Tokyo reported 1,675 new positive cases on Sept. 9. The capital remains under a fourth state of emergency as it battles a fifth wave of coronavirus cases.

       Tokyo saw an average of 2,231 new cases per day in the first week of September. The capital recorded a total of 125,606 coronavirus infections in August, or an average of 4,051.8 cases per day, up from the average of 1,420.5 cases in July, when it recorded 44,034 total infections.

       By Sept. 9, a total of 2,613 people had died of COVID-19 in Tokyo since the pandemic began in the spring of 2020.

       Tokyo has recorded 363,943 infections to date, the most of any of Japan's 47 prefectures. As of Sept. 9, there were 3,909 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Tokyo, 251 with severe symptoms.

       (Mainichi)

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