People ride a train traveling through the Shinjuku district in Tokyo on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

       TOKYO -- The Japanese capital saw 531 new coronavirus infections on Sept. 23, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced, marking the eighth day in a row under 1,000 cases.

       Tokyo reported 537 new positive cases on Sept. 22. 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, and 663.9 in the third. 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. 22, a total of 2,820 people had died of COVID-19 in Tokyo since the pandemic began in the spring of 2020.

       Tokyo has recorded 373,613 infections to date, the most of any of Japan's 47 prefectures. As of Sept. 22, there were 2,046 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Tokyo, 146 with severe symptoms.

       (Mainichi)

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