[Domestic Infection] 879 people were infected on the 18th, and 4 died (as of 6:30 pm) 19:19 on August 18th

A total of 879 new infections have been announced on the 18th. In addition, there were announcements of one death in Kumamoto prefecture, Miyagi prefecture, Aichi prefecture, and Fukuoka prefecture, respectively, totaling 4 people. The number of people confirmed to be infected in Japan was 57,738 including quarantine at airports and 712 passengers and crew on cruise ships, for a total of 58,450. The number of people who died in Japan is 1,123, and the number of passengers on cruise ships is 13,136 in total.

According to the local governments, etc., the total number of people confirmed to be infected in Japan is as follows.
The number in parentheses is the number of new infections on the 18th.

▽ Tokyo: 10,802 (207)
▽ Osaka: 7101 (185)
▽ Kanagawa: 3987 (84)
▽ Aichi: 3848 (57)
▽ Fukuoka: 3728 (45)
▽ Saitama Is 3268 (15)
▽ Chiba is 2518 (38)
▽ Hyogo is 1949 (25)
▽ Okinawa is 1689 (33)
▽ Hokkaido is 1638 (6)
▽ Kyoto is 1164 (26)
▽ Gifu prefecture 520 (4)
▽ Ishikawa prefecture 486 (11)
▽ Ibaraki prefecture 462 (6)
▽ Nara prefecture 440 (37)
▽ Hiroshima prefecture 437
▽ Shizuoka prefecture 425 (7) )
▽ Kumamoto Prefecture 415 (3)
▽ Shiga Prefecture 354 (8)
▽ Kagoshima Prefecture 335 (7)
▽ Toyama Prefecture 323 (9)
▽ Gunma Prefecture 321 (14)
▽ Miyazaki Prefecture 299 (5)
▽ Mie 288 (3)
▽ Tochigi 280 (3)
▽ Wakayama 209 (11)
▽ Saga 199 (1)
▽ Nagasaki 189 (4)
▽ Miyagi prefecture has 186 people (1)
▽ Fukui prefecture has 155 people
▽ Nagano prefecture 150 people (1)
▽ Yamanashi prefecture 142 people
▽ Shimane prefecture 133 people
▽ Niigata prefecture 131 people (2)
▽ Okayama prefecture 128 people (2)
▽ Oita prefecture 120 people (7)
▽ Ehime Prefecture 110 people
▽ Fukushima prefecture 109 people (3)
▽ Kochi prefecture 103 people
▽ Tokushima prefecture 95 people (4)
▽ Yamaguchi prefecture 84 people (1)
▽ Yamagata prefecture 76 people
▽ Kagawa prefecture 67 people
▽ Akita prefecture has 44 people (1)
▽ Aomori prefecture has 33 people
▽ Tottori prefecture has 21 people
▽ Iwate prefecture has 9 people.

In addition,
▽ Quarantine at the airport 715 (3)
▽ Total of 173 people who returned from China by chartered aircraft and the infection of national staff and quarantine officers.

According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the number of severely ill persons who have been confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus and who are being treated in ventilators and intensive care units is 243 as of the 18th.

On the other hand, the number of people who were discharged from the hospital due to improvement in symptoms was
42,284 in Japan, and the number
of passengers and crew on the cruise ship was 659, for a total of 42,943.

On the 16th, 8590 PCR tests were carried out as preliminary figures.

*The total may be revised at a later date.
*Does not include persons infected by the US Army in Japan.
*Chiba Prefecture corrected the infected person on the 11th and reduced the number by one.
* Osaka Prefecture corrected the infected person on the 18th and reduced the number of people by two.