In Kumamoto Prefecture, it was announced on the 12th that 2,136 new people were confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.
On the other hand, the notification of the occurrence of one person who had been announced so far was withdrawn, and four people were double counted, so they were excluded from the cumulative total.
With this, the total number of infected people in the prefecture has reached 229,616.
In addition, four deaths were announced, bringing the total number of people who died in the prefecture who tested positive to 433.