Hiroshima City announced that it has been confirmed that 26 people in their 20s to 70s and 90s are infected with the new coronavirus.
Two people in their 90s and 50s are moderately ill and the others are asymptomatic or mild.
In addition, the two people in their 30s and 40s are the staff of a group home where elderly people live, where clusters have been confirmed to occur.
In addition, Kure City announced that a total of five people in their 50s and 70s have been confirmed to be newly infected with the new coronavirus.
This brings the total number of confirmed infections in Hiroshima Prefecture to 974.