This was reported by the NHK TV channel.

It is noted that for the first time in the entire time of a pandemic in the country, this figure exceeded 20 thousand.

The total number of reported cases of COVID-19 in Japan has reached 1,109,913.

In total, 15,397 people have died from the coronavirus.

Earlier, the president of the Russian Olympic Committee, Stanislav Pozdnyakov, said that not a single athlete of the Russian national team contracted coronavirus infection at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo.