Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, announced that it has been newly confirmed that 11 men and women in their 40s to 60s and 80s and 90s living in the city and Osaka Prefecture are infected with the new coronavirus.
This brings the total number of confirmed infections in Yamaguchi Prefecture to 1037.
In addition, Shimonoseki City announced that a woman in her 90s who had been hospitalized at a medical institution in the prefecture died on the 23rd after being infected with the new coronavirus.
This brings the number of people who died from being infected with the new coronavirus in Yamaguchi Prefecture to seven.