Preliminary figures showed a record 1,304 seriously ill COVID-19 patients nationwide on Sunday, according to the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry.
This represented an increase of one from the previous day. Japan has now seen record highs for three consecutive days.
Tokyo confirmed 535 new cases of the novel coronavirus on the same day, down seven from a week ago. The daily tally in the capital was lower than the figure on the same day of the previous week for the 10th consecutive day.
According to the Tokyo metropolitan government, the seven-day moving average of new infection cases in the capital was 649.4, 80.5% that of the previous seven-day period's 806.4. The number of seriously ill patients in Tokyo was 61, down one from the previous day.
In Okinawa Prefecture, where a state of emergency took effect Sunday, there were 156 new cases. This was down from the record 231 cases reported Saturday, but double the figure from the previous Sunday.
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