High-rise buildings are seen in the heart of Tokyo, with the Imperial Palace in the foreground, in this photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter in the capital's Chiyoda Ward. (Mainichi/Kentaro Ikushima)

       TOKYO -- Japan's capital saw 17 new coronavirus infections on Nov. 23, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced.

       The new cases came after Tokyo recorded just six infections the previous day, a record low for 2021.

       Tokyo saw a daily average of 20.14 infections in the first week of November. The figure rose slightly to 22 in the second week, then dropped to 16.3 in the third. The capital registered 2,176 total COVID-19 cases in October for an average of 70.2 cases per day, a steep drop from September's 31,842 total cases (an average of 1,061.4 per day) and the 125,606 infections (an average of 4,051.8 per day) tallied in August.

       By Nov. 22, 3,164 people had died of COVID-19 in Tokyo since the pandemic began in Japan in the spring of 2020.

       Tokyo has recorded 382,112 infections to date, the most among Japan's 47 prefectures. As of Nov. 22, there were 82 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Tokyo, eight with severe symptoms.

       (Mainichi)

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