The Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced that it has confirmed that 337 new people have been infected with the new coronavirus in Tokyo based on preliminary figures as of 3:00 pm on the 23rd.

There are 37 more people than Tuesday a week ago.

This is the fourth consecutive day of the week to surpass the same day a week ago.

In addition, the average number of people for 7 days up to the 23rd was 308.1, which was 106.6% of the previous week, which also increased.

This brings the total number of confirmed infections in Tokyo to 118,041.



On the other hand, the number of seriously ill patients as of the 23rd, which was calculated based on the Tokyo standard, was 42, a decrease of 5 from the 22nd.