High-rise buildings are seen in the heart of Tokyo, with the Imperial Palace in the foreground, in this photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter in the capital's Chiyoda Ward. (Mainichi/Kentaro Ikushima)

       TOKYO -- Japan's capital registered 16 new coronavirus infections on Nov. 19, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced, after reporting 20 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. 18, 3,161 people had died of COVID-19 in Tokyo since the pandemic began in Japan in the spring of 2020.

       Tokyo has recorded 382,053 infections to date, the most among Japan's 47 prefectures. As of Nov. 18, there were 94 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Tokyo, 10 with severe symptoms.

       (Mainichi)

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