TOKYO, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Japan logged a record of 3,037 daily COVID-19 cases on Saturday, surpassing 3,000 for the first time as Tokyo and several other prefectures marked records in a single day amid a resurgence of infections.
The total number of infections in Japan amounted to 46,745. In Tokyo, 621 cases of new infections were reported on Saturday, surpassing the previous record of 602 logged on Thursday, while Saitama, Kyoto, Nagano, Gifu, Iwate and some other prefectures also marked an all-time high of daily infections.