Shiga Prefecture announced on the 6th that it was confirmed that 50 new people were infected with the new coronavirus in the prefecture.
This is the largest number of people in the prefecture who have been confirmed to be infected each day.
With this, the number of people confirmed to be infected in the prefecture is 1371.
In addition, the prefecture announced that a man over 90 years old who had been infected with the new coronavirus had died, and 14 people died in the prefecture.