The Tokyo Metropolitan Government reported 224 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Thursday, an all-time high for the capital following a surge in infections that began more than two weeks ago.
The previous record was 206 cases, set on April 17 — 10 days after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared a state of emergency in Tokyo and six other prefectures.
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike had said earlier Thursday that the day’s new cases would be high, prefacing the warning by explaining that the number of polymerase chain reaction tests carried out in the capital had also reached an all-time high of 3,400 tests that day.
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