People walk on the scramble crossing at Tokyo's Shibuya shopping district on Dec. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

       TOKYO -- Tokyo recorded seven new COVID-19 cases on Dec. 13, after reporting 13 the previous day, the metropolitan government announced.

       Reported case numbers typically dip on Mondays due to low testing figures over the weekend, especially on Sundays. Tokyo recorded 111 new coronavirus infections in the first week of December, or 15.9 per day on average. The Japanese capital saw a total of 562 coronavirus infections in November for an average of 18.7 cases per day, far below the 2,176 total cases in October (an average of 70.2 cases per day) and September's 31,929 total cases (an average of 1,064.3 per day).

       By Dec. 12, 3,170 people had died of COVID-19 in Tokyo since the pandemic began in Japan in the spring of 2020.

       Tokyo has recorded 382,389 infections to date, the most among Japan's 47 prefectures. As of Dec. 12, there were 76 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Tokyo, three with severe symptoms.

       (Mainichi)

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