People wearing face masks walk in the rain through a path to the Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district, on July 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

       TOKYO -- The Tokyo Metropolitan Government reported that the capital saw 896 coronavirus infections on July 8.

       The new cases came after Tokyo recorded 920 infections on July 7. With infections spreading again, the Japanese government is preparing to issue 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, Tokyo recorded a total of 12,979 new coronavirus cases, or a daily average of 432.6 cases, down from the daily average of 705.8 in May. Tokyo saw a monthly high of 39,664 new virus cases in January -- an average of 1,279.5 infections per day, and the highest single-month total since the pandemic began in spring 2020.

       By July 7, a total of 2,244 people had died of COVID-19 in Tokyo.

       Tokyo has recorded 178,356 infections to date, the most of any of Japan's 47 prefectures. As of July 7, there were 1,673 COVID-19 patients in hospital, 62 with severe symptoms.

       (Mainichi)

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