A patissier wearing a mask and a face shield hands out pieces of a pastry product to masked pedestrians as he was promoting his shop at the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo, on Aug. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

       TOKYO -- Tokyo reported 4,227 COVID-19 infections on Aug. 27, its fourth day in a row over 4,000 cases and the 20th day this month over the mark.

       The capital saw 4,704 new infections on Aug. 26, and remains under a fourth state of emergency as it battles a fifth wave of coronavirus cases.

       In the first week of August, Tokyo recorded an average of 3,893 new cases per day. The figure rose to 4,231.1 in the second week, and 4,719 in the third, up from the daily average of 1,420.5 for the month of July, when the capital registered a total of 44,034 new infections.

       By Aug. 26, a total of 2,415 people had died of COVID-19 in Tokyo since the pandemic began in the spring of 2020.

       Tokyo has recorded 332,088 infections to date, the most of any of Japan's 47 prefectures. As of Aug. 26, there were 4,156 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Tokyo, 276 with severe symptoms.

       (Mainichi)

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