The Tokyo metropolitan government on Saturday reported
1,121 new coronavirus cases, up 214 from Friday. The figure is the highest since Jan 22, when it was 1,184, which was during the second state of emergency.
The average for Tokyo over the past seven days stands at 776.6.
People in their 20s (286 cases), their 30s (216) and their 40s (187) accounted for the highest numbers, while 162 cases were aged 60 and over.
The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo is 71, up two from Friday, health officials said. The nationwide figure is 1,131, unchanged from Friday.
Osaka reported 1,021 cases and 41 deaths. Hokkaido reported a record high 403 cases (277 of which were in Sapporo).
Nationwide, the number of reported cases was 7,192 as of 6:30 p.m. It was the first time the total topped 7,000 since Jan 16. After Tokyo and Osaka, the prefectures with the most cases were Aichi (575), Hyogo (568), Fukuoka (519), Hokkaido (403), Kanagawa (303), Saitama (285), Okayama (189), Chiba (162), Hiroshima (125), Gifu (121), Kyoto (120), Gunma (113), Okinawa (93), Oita (93), Nara (86), Ishikawa (80), Kagawa (78), Saga (76), Shiga (74), Fukushima (69), Ibaraki (67), Nagasaki (65), Shizuoka (65), Miyazaki (62), Tochigi (51), Niigata (50), Miyagi (47), Mie (47), Nagano (46) and Yamaguchi (39).
The number of coronavirus-related deaths reported nationwide was 84.
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