People wearing masks to help protect against the spread of the coronavirus walk through a train station in Tokyo, on Sept. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

       TOKYO -- Japan's capital registered 1,675 new COVID-19 cases on Sept. 9, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced.

       Tokyo reported 1,834 positive cases on Sept. 8. 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 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. 8, a total of 2,594 people had died of COVID-19 in Tokyo since the pandemic began in the spring of 2020.

       Tokyo has recorded 362,701 infections to date, the most of any of Japan's 47 prefectures. As of Sept. 8, there were 4,008 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Tokyo, 252 with severe symptoms.

       (Mainichi)

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