Yamaguchi Prefecture announced that it was confirmed that two men and women in their twenties living in Iwakuni City were infected with the new coronavirus.
This brings the total number of confirmed infections in the prefecture to 1393.
In addition, the prefecture announced that a woman in her 90s who was infected with the new coronavirus and was hospitalized at a medical institution in the prefecture died on the 15th.
43 people died after being infected with the new coronavirus in the prefecture.