Tokyo See Decrease in Coronavirus Cases But Daily Infections Still in Triple Digits

Seoul is not the only Northeast Asia capitol dealing with coronavirus cluster infections, Tokyo is as well:

A person dines as pedestrians walk past cooling mist sprays in Tokyo’s Marunouchi district on Friday. | BLOOMBERG

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government on Sunday confirmed 148 additional cases of the novel coronavirus, the second lowest daily figure recorded in the capital this month.

The single-day figure brought Tokyo’s cumulative total to over 20,700 cases. The capital hit a record 472 on Aug. 1 and has seen daily cases in triple digits for every day in August bar last Monday, when it recorded 95 new infections, its lowest figure in over a month.

Japan Times

You can read more at the link, but Tokyo has decreasing case numbers and have done it without a lockdown which is what Seoul has implemented.

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