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 -- The Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced that the capital recorded five new COVID-19 cases on Nov. 24, a record low for 2021.

       The new cases came after Tokyo saw 17 infections a day earlier. The previous lowest record was six cases reported on Nov. 22.

       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. 23, 3,164 people had died of COVID-19 in Tokyo since the pandemic began in Japan in the spring of 2020.

       Tokyo has recorded 382,117 infections to date, the most among Japan's 47 prefectures. As of Nov. 23, there were 79 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Tokyo, eight with severe symptoms.

       (Mainichi)

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