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 -- The Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced 21 new COVID-19 cases in the capital on Nov. 30.

       The new infections followed the eight cases reported the previous day.

       Tokyo saw a daily average of 20.1 infections in the first week of November. The figure rose slightly to 24.6 in the second week, then dropped to 17.3 in the third, and declined further to 14.1 in the fourth. 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 31,929 total cases (an average of 1,064.3 per day) and the 129,193 infections (an average of 4,168 per day) tallied in August.

       By Nov. 29, 3,165 people had died of COVID-19 in Tokyo since the pandemic began in Japan in the spring of 2020.

       Tokyo has recorded 382,175 infections to date, the most among Japan's 47 prefectures. As of Nov. 29, there were 67 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Tokyo, six with severe symptoms.

       (Mainichi)

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