This June 24, 2021 photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter shows the Tokyo Metropolitan Government headquarters. (Mainichi)

       TOKYO -- Japan's capital reported 611 coronavirus infections on Sept. 13, dipping below 1,000 for the second time this month, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced.

       Tokyo reported 1,067 new positive cases on Sept. 12. Reported infections tend to drop on Mondays due to low testing figures over the weekend, especially on Sundays. 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. 12, a total of 2,666 people had died of COVID-19 in Tokyo since the pandemic began in the spring of 2020.

       Tokyo has recorded 366,894 infections to date, the most of any of Japan's 47 prefectures. As of Sept. 12, there were 3,570 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Tokyo, 230 with severe symptoms.

       (Mainichi)

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