On the 5th, it was announced that a total of 622 people were infected with the new coronavirus, the highest number ever in Kanagawa prefecture.
This is the first time that the number of infected people per day announced in the prefecture has exceeded 600, surpassing the highest number of 588 on the 31st of last month, which is the highest number ever.
Meanwhile, Yokohama, Sagamihara, and the prefecture have announced the deaths of a total of six men and women in their 70s and 90s.
In addition, the city of Yokohama has corrected the number of infected people for 24 days, saying that the woman in her twenties announced on the 24th of last month overlapped with the person who had already announced.
In addition, the city of Yokohama withdrew the man in his thirties announced on the 2nd of this month because he was not infected based on the results of subsequent tests, and the woman in his fifties who also announced on the second of this month announced the day before. Corrected the number of infected people for 2 days because it was duplicated with.
According to NHK's summary, the number of infected people announced in the prefecture is now 23,510, of which 296 have died.