The Hiroshima City Board of Education has announced that it has been confirmed that one child under the age of 10 attending a municipal elementary school in Naka-ku, Hiroshima City is infected with the new coronavirus.
This brings the total number of confirmed infections in Hiroshima Prefecture to 2028.
In addition, on the 17th, 138 cases of infection were revealed in the prefecture, which was the highest number of infected people announced on the 1st.
Meanwhile, Hiroshima Prefecture announced that one patient who had been hospitalized at a medical institution in the prefecture had died.
After being infected with the new coronavirus in the prefecture, 13 people died.