Kagawa Prefecture announced on the 24th that it was confirmed that 27 men and women between the ages of 4 and 90 were newly infected with the new coronavirus.
Twenty-three of the 27 people are staff or inpatients at Hashimoto Hospital in Mitoyo City, where the cluster = outbreak occurred.
The number of infected people confirmed per day in Kagawa Prefecture was the highest ever for two consecutive days on the 23rd, and the number of infected people confirmed in the prefecture was 258.