On the 5th, it was announced that a total of 68 people were newly confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus in Kanagawa prefecture.
The number of infected people announced in the prefecture per day fell below 100 for the first time in 6 days.
Also, there are 25 fewer people than on Monday a week ago.
Meanwhile, the death of a man in his 80s living in Yokohama was announced.
According to NHK's summary, the number of infected people announced in the prefecture is now 48,675, of which 788 have died.
In addition, Kanagawa Prefecture announced on the 5th that it was newly confirmed that nine men and women in their teens to 50s living in the prefecture were infected with the mutated coronavirus.
According to the prefecture, new infections with the mutant virus were confirmed in the prefecture:
1 female teenager ▽
3 males and 1 female in their
20s ▽
2 males in their
30s ▽ 40s 1 male
▽
1
male in his 50s, 9 in total.
All of them were found by private screening tests, and they are conducting detailed tests to find out in which country the mutant virus was spreading.
All of them have been confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus since the end of last month and have already been announced as infected, and are now mild or asymptomatic.
In Kanagawa Prefecture, people infected with the mutant virus have been confirmed one after another, bringing the total to 83 people.