Saitama Prefecture Two newly confirmed infections The prefecture has 51 people on March 22 at 20:17

Saitama Prefecture has confirmed that a new coronavirus infection has been confirmed and that a patient living in the prefecture receiving treatment died on the 22nd. It is the first time that a person confirmed to be infected with a new coronavirus has died in Saitama Prefecture.

Governor Ono of Saitama Prefecture held a news conference on the night of the 22nd, and announced that a patient living in the prefecture who had been infected with the new coronavirus and had been treated at a medical institution had died.

After the patient who died had an underlying disease and was confirmed to be infected, he was hospitalized and treated for medical treatment, but died on the 22nd.

It is one of 45 people who had been infected in the prefecture by the 21st. did not.

It is the first time that a person confirmed to be infected with a new coronavirus has died in Saitama Prefecture.

In Saitama Prefecture, two other cases were confirmed: a male in his 20s in Hasuda City and a female in his 50s in Kasukabe City.

Both of them are working for a company in Kasukabe that has already been confirmed to be infected with three people, and their tests revealed that they were infected on the 22nd.

It means that they have almost no symptoms. The number of people infected with the new coronavirus announced in Saitama Prefecture now totals 51.