A store attendant wearing a protective face mask and face shield, left, gives a customer hand sanitizer inside the Nintendo-TOKYO store in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday, Aug 4, 2020. - Bloomberg
TOKYO, Aug. 4 (Xinhua): The Tokyo metropolitan government confirmed 309 new daily Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, according to preliminary figures as of 3:00 p.m. local time, with the figure marking the eighth straight day cases have topped 200 in the capital.
The latest figure followed 258 new Covid-19 infections confirmed a day earlier, when the figure dropped for two straight days, coming off record highs late last week, when the capital logged 292 cases on Sunday and a record daily increase of 472 on Saturday.
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