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Women wearing protective masks, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, walk down a staircase carrying a slogan encouraging the Japanese team during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan on the 7th August 2021. REUTERS / Kim Kyung-Hoon
TOKYO, October 9 (Reuters) – The Tokyo government said on Saturday that new daily COVID-19 infections in the Japanese capital fell to 82, the lowest since October 19 last year.
Cases have been declining since they peaked at more than 5,000 a day in August in a wave driven by the highly infectious Delta variant. Last week, Tokyo and much of Japan emerged from the nearly six-month state of emergency.
Reporting by Elaine Lies; Editing by William Mallard
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