A man wearing a protective face mask walks past a torii gate of a shrine, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Tokyo,?? Japan, July 2, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo confirmed 107 new coronavirus infections on Thursday, its highest daily tally in two months, but Japan's chief cabinet secretary said there was no need to reintroduce a state of emergency.
The Japanese capital, with 14 million people, had initially sought to hold new daily cases at fewer than 20 after the government lifted the state of emergency on May 25, only to see its tally consistently exceed 50 over the past week.
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