People wearing face masks walk past a crossing in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Monday, Sept. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

       TOKYO -- The Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced 302 new coronavirus infections in the Japanese capital on Sept. 20, the fifth day in a row under 1,000 cases.

       Tokyo reported 565 new positive cases on Sept. 19. Reported infections typically drop on Mondays due to low testing numbers over the weekend, especially on Sundays. 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 figure dropped to 1,243.7 cases in the second week. 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. 19, a total of 2,797 people had died of COVID-19 in Tokyo since the pandemic began in the spring of 2020.

       Tokyo has recorded 372,292 infections to date, the most of any of Japan's 47 prefectures. As of Sept. 19, there were 2,436 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Tokyo, 171 with severe symptoms.

       (Mainichi)

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