Coronavirus infections surged Saturday to a single-day record of 63 in the capital, while 58 people at a welfare facility in adjacent Chiba Prefecture also tested positive, government officials said.
Tokyo had logged more than 40 infections per day in the past three days, but Saturday’s batch took the total to 362, the highest of all 47 prefectures.
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