TOKYO – Japan on Monday reported 137,859 new coronavirus cases, the Japan Today reported.
The Tokyo metropolitan government reported 17,884 new coronavirus cases, down 8,429 from Sunday.
The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo is 39, up three from Sunday, health officials said. The nationwide figure is 555, up four from Sunday.
Other prefectures reporting high numbers were Kanagawa (12,631), Saitama (8.832), Fukuoka (8,461), Osaka (8,164), Hyogo (7,884), Chiba (7,044), Aichi (5,368), Hokkaido (5,098), Kyoto (4,465), Hiroshima (3,343), Okinawa (2,608), Ibaraki (2,887), Niigata (2,441), Nara (2,280), Okayama (2,228), Kagoshima (2,145), Nagasaki (1,915) and Gifu (1,612).
The number of coronavirus-related deaths reported nationwide was 150.
