Tokyo's daily confirmed COVID-19 cases to be announced later Wednesday have topped 3,000 for the first time, a government source said.
The all-time high comes just a day after Tokyo, hosting the Olympics since last week, logged 2,848 daily coronavirus infections, which had exceeded the previous record of 2,520 cases recorded on Jan. 7.
Olympic organizers have pledged to implement strict COVID-19 restrictions for a "safe and secure" games and stressed that the number of infections among athletes and others associated with the sporting extravaganza is very low. Following a fresh wave of infections driven by the highly contagious Delta variant of the virus, Tokyo has been under a fourth state of emergency from July 12, requesting that restaurants stop serving alcohol and close early.
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