The Tokyo metropolitan government on Saturday reported 23,172
new coronavirus cases, down 4,504 from Friday.
The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo is 36, up two from Friday, health officials said. The nationwide number is 616, down 11 from Friday.
Other prefectures reporting high numbers were Hyogo (11,583), Hokkaido (7,590), Kyoto (5,094), Gifu (4,506), Okayama (4,399), Niigata (4,002), Okinawa (3,941), Fukushima (3,490), Nagano (3,334), Ehime (3,236), Yamaguchi (2,835), Gunma (2,790), Ishikawa (2,643), Oita (2,524), Kagawa (2,327) and Tokushima (2,296).
Editor: Story will be updated with more nationwide numbers.
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