7,967 new coronavirus circumstances confirmed in Tokyo on Saturday

Japan’s well being ministry says 7,967 new coronavirus circumstances have been reported in Tokyo on Saturday.

The tally is up 3,843 from the identical day final week and is almost double the determine every week in the past.

The variety of severely sick COVID-19 sufferers on ventilators or ECMO heart-lung machines within the capital was 18 on Saturday, down one from the day gone by.

There have been two deaths within the metropolis linked to the virus.