In Tokyo for a day with the coronavirus fell ill more than 200 people

TOKYO, April 17 – RIA Novosti. In Tokyo during the day revealed a record number of cases of coronavirus – 201, said at a press conference in Tokyo, the Governor of Tokyo Yuriko Koike.

in addition, she said that one of her supporters, who for many years supported her, died because of coronavirus.

“I cried. It’s very sad. The family could not attend the cremation. I very much felt the full enormity of this virus. In Japan compared to other countries deaths a bit, but each of them is someone’s only life. To at least one fatal case was less to at least one serious case was less than that was not destroyed system of health, each of us needs to show responsibility,” said Koike to a journalist’s question about how she took the news.

By this time Japan recorded 13002 cases of novel coronavirus infection, including 712 who was infected on a cruise ship Diamond Princess, which was quarantined off the coast of Japan in February. Just Friday it was discovered 294 new cases, of which 201 in Tokyo, Japan. Killed 209 people. The state of 197 people is estimated as heavy. Recovered and discharged from hospitals 1564 person.

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