Security guards hold posters of a district ordinance banning bike riding on the sidewalk in the area as they walk on the Ginza-dori avenue in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

       TOKYO -- Tokyo reported 3,581 COVID-19 infections on Aug. 28, the fifth day in a row and 21st day this month with over 4,000 cases.

       The capital saw 4,227 new infections on Aug. 27, 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. 27, a total of 2,433 people had died of COVID-19 in Tokyo since the pandemic began in the spring of 2020.

       Tokyo has recorded 335,669 infections to date, the most of any of Japan's 47 prefectures. As of Aug. 27, there were 4,226 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Tokyo, 294 with severe symptoms.

       (Mainichi)

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