The daily number of new cases of novel coronavirus infection exceeded 255,000 nationwide on Thursday, marking a record high for the first time in eight days, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun tally.
Tokyo logged 27,453 new cases of infection with the novel coronavirus, down 3,794 from the same day last week and marking the third consecutive day of a week-on-week decrease.
In Osaka, however, there were 24,323 new cases reported, an increase of 2,272 from last Thursday.
