The Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced that it has confirmed that 300 new people have been infected with the new coronavirus in Tokyo based on preliminary figures as of 3:00 pm on the 16th.
The number of people has increased by 10 from Tuesday a week ago, and has exceeded the same day a week ago for eight consecutive days until the 16th.
In addition, the average for 7 days up to 16th was 289.0, which was 110.4% of the previous week.
The 7-day average has increased from the previous week for 4 consecutive days.
With this, a total of 115,884 people have been confirmed to be infected in Tokyo.
On the other hand, the number of seriously ill patients as of the 16th, which was calculated based on the Tokyo standard, was 42, the same as on the 15th.