Ibaraki Prefecture and Mito City announced on the 2nd that they have confirmed that 35 new people are infected with the new coronavirus.



So far, a total of 6,800 people have been confirmed to be infected in the prefecture.



Also, according to the prefecture, it was found that one of the people who had been confirmed to be infected was infected with the mutated coronavirus.



This is the seventh person to be confirmed infected with a mutated virus in the prefecture.