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Tokyo’s metropolitan government on Sunday showed 148 more cases of the new coronavirus, the lowest number recorded in the capital this month.
The one-day figure raises Tokyo’s cumulative total to more than 20,700 cases. The capital recorded 472 on August 1 and recorded daily three-digit instances for the day of the August bar last Monday, when it recorded 95 new infections, its lowest number. in over a month.
Metropolitan government figures reflect recent totals reported through the fitness government and medical facilities.
Tokyo, with a population of 14 million, has kept its alert for the coronavirus pandemic at 4 levels, meaning that “infections are spreading. “
In an effort to stop the spread, Governor Yuriko Koike said Thursday that Tokyo would expand until September 15 a request for alcohol institutions and karaoke services in its 23 neighborhoods in the center of the capital to shorten its opening hours as cases spread from there.
The request to close those outdoor businesses in all 23 districts before 10 p. m.
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