Hyogo Prefecture announced on the 3rd that it was newly confirmed that 120 people in the prefecture were infected with the new coronavirus.
On the other hand, the city of Kobe corrected the number of infected people, saying that one person who was announced as infected on January 10 was negative in the subsequent test.
The total number of infected people announced in the prefecture was 16,782.
In addition, Hyogo Prefecture announced on the 2nd that eight people who had been infected with the new coronavirus were confirmed dead.
In Hyogo prefecture, 430 people have died from being infected with the new coronavirus.