People cross a street in the tourist district of Asakusa, near the landmark Tokyo Skytree tower in Tokyo, on Saturday, July 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Kantaro Komiya)

       TOKYO -- The Japanese capital recorded 4,058 more coronavirus infections on July 31, setting another new daily high and topping 4,000 cases for the first time.

       The count broke the previous daily record of 3,865, set only two days before. Tokyo registered 3,300 new cases on July 30. The city remains under a fourth COVID-19 state of emergency as it hosts the Olympic Games.

       The capital saw an average of 631.7 coronavirus cases per day in the first week of July. The daily average for the second week rose to 823.3, before jumping to 1,277.6 in the third week. In the fourth week, it spiked by nearly 1,000, to 2,216.4. In June, Tokyo recorded a total of 12,979 new coronavirus cases, or a daily average of 432.6, down from the daily average of 705.8 in May.

       By July 30, a total of 2,290 people had died of COVID-19 in Tokyo since the pandemic began in the spring of 2020.

       Tokyo has recorded 217,968 infections to date, the most of any of Japan's 47 prefectures. As of July 30, there were 3,135 COVID-19 patients in hospital in Tokyo, 88 with severe symptoms.

       (Mainichi)

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