The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced on the 9th that 2,173 new people in Tokyo were confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.
1,329 fewer people than Thursday a week ago.
It's the 23rd straight day that it's been below the same day of the previous week.
In addition, the number of severely ill patients using a ventilator or ECMO = 32 people, decreased by 3 from the 8th.
Meanwhile, 13 confirmed cases have died.
Tokyo expert ``Beware of lowering the infection alert level by one step''
A monitoring meeting was held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building on the 9th to analyze and evaluate the infection status and medical care system in Tokyo.
Among them, it was reported that the average number of new infections for 7 days was 2652 as of the 8th, 66% of the previous week, and has been below 100% for 4 consecutive weeks.
In addition, the number of hospitalized patients was 1946, 552 less than the previous date of the 1st of this month.
Based on this situation, experts have lowered the current level of infection by one of the four warning levels, making it the second from the bottom.
It is the first time in about three months since mid-November last year that the infection alert level has become the second lowest.
On the other hand, regarding the alert level of the medical care system, we maintained the second highest level because the number of severely ill patients remained almost unchanged.
Takao Omagari, director of the Center for Global Infectious Diseases at the National Center for Global Health and Medicine, warned that, ``Although the number of new infections continues to decline, there may be many latent infections that do not appear in reports.'' I was.