Five cluster students infected with the new corona at Saitama Prefectural High School September 18, 21:44
Saitama City announced on the 18th that it was confirmed that four people in the same class attending a prefectural high school in the city were infected with the new coronavirus.
In this class, one student has already been infected and the city believes that a cluster has occurred.
Saitama City announced on the 18th that seven new infections have been confirmed.
Four of them are students of the same class who attend prefectural high schools in the city.
This brings the total number of infections among students in this class to five, and the city believes that a cluster has occurred.
The school has decided to close this class until the 25th of this month.
Including the announcement by Saitama City, 24 new infections were confirmed in the prefecture on the 18th, and the total number of people announced in the prefecture is 4391.
In addition, Saitama Prefecture and Koshigaya City announced on the 18th that two patients infected with the new coronavirus have died.
Of these, the prefecture announced that a woman in her 80s was hospitalized at a medical institution in the prefecture, but died on the 17th.
The woman had an underlying illness and was being treated with a ventilator.
This brings the number of confirmed infections to 99.