Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, announced that it has been confirmed that two men and women in their twenties living in the city are infected with the new coronavirus.

This brings the total number of confirmed infections in Yamaguchi Prefecture to 1374.



Yamaguchi Prefecture also announced that a man in his 70s who was infected with the new coronavirus and was hospitalized at a medical institution in the prefecture died on the 25th.



After being infected with the new coronavirus in the prefecture, 37 people died.