Commuters wearing masks are seen during rush hour at Shinagawa Station on Monday, July 12, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

       TOKYO -- The Tokyo Metropolitan Government reported 502 more coronavirus infections in Japan's capital on July 12.

       The new cases came after Tokyo registered 614 infections on July 11. Case counts typically drop on Mondays due to low testing figures over the weekend, especially on Sundays.

       With infections spreading again, the Japanese government has declared yet another COVID-19 state of emergency in Tokyo just weeks before the start of the Olympics.

       Tokyo saw an average of 631.7 coronavirus cases per day in the first week of July. In June, the capital 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 11, a total of 2,256 people had died of COVID-19 in Tokyo since the pandemic began in the spring of 2020.

       Tokyo has recorded 182,140 infections to date, the most of any of Japan's 47 prefectures. As of July 11, there were 1,902 COVID-19 patients in hospital, 61 with severe symptoms.

       (Mainichi)

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