CORONAVIRUS CASES UPDATE: As of August 26, 2021; Tokyo Reports 4,704 Coronavirus Cases; Nationwide Tally 24,976
The Tokyo metropolitan government on Thursday reported 4,704 new coronavirus cases, up 476 from Wednesday and 830 down from last Thursday.
The average for Tokyo over the past seven days stands at 4,352.9.
People in their 20s (1,330 cases), their 30s (896) and their 40s (811) accounted for the highest numbers, while 809 cases were aged under 19.
The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo was 276, down one from Wednesday, health officials said. The nationwide figure was 1,974, up 10 from Wednesday.
Nationwide, the number of reported cases as of 6:30 p.m. was 24,976. After Tokyo, the prefectures with the most cases were Osaka (2,830), Kanagawa (2,632), Aichi (2,141), Saitama (1,709), Chiba (1,396), Hyogo (1,007), Fukuoka (992), Okinawa (680), Kyoto (608), Shizuoka (548), Mie (515), Hokkaido (504), Gifu (384), Hiroshima (356), Gunma (337), Ibaraki (271), Kumamoto (260), Miyagi (227), Tochigi (227), Shiga (215), Okayama (206), Nara (205), Kagoshima (192), Oita (163), Aomori (139), Miyazaki (127), Niigata (125), Kochi (107), Nagano (107) and Saga (103).
The number of coronavirus-related deaths reported nationwide was 52.
