Jul 05 (Kyodo) - Tokyo confirmed 5,302 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday, more than double the level the week before and exceeding the 5,000 mark for the first time since April 28.
Across Japan, a total of 36,189 new coronavirus cases were recorded, more than an 80 percent increase from a week earlier, with each of the country's 47 prefectures seeing higher case counts. The last time the nation saw an excess of 30,000 new daily cases was May 26.
In Tokyo, the seven-day rolling average of new cases stood at 3,778.3 per day, up 74.9 percent from Tuesday last week, according to the metropolitan government.
