People wearing face masks walk on a street in Tokyo, on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

       TOKYO -- Japan's capital saw 1,834 COVID-19 cases on Sept. 8, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced.

       Tokyo reported 1,629 new positive cases on Sept. 7. 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. 7, a total of 2,577 people had died of COVID-19 in Tokyo since the pandemic began in the spring of 2020.

       Tokyo has recorded 361,026 infections to date, the most of any of Japan's 47 prefectures. As of Sept. 7, there were 4,164 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Tokyo, 260 with severe symptoms.

       (Mainichi)

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