Tokushima Prefecture announced that 19 new men and women in their teens to 80s have been confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.
This brings the number of confirmed infections to 624 in Tokushima Prefecture.
He also announced that an elderly person in his 70s who had been hospitalized at a medical institution in the prefecture died on the 5th.
This brings the number of people who died of the new coronavirus infection in Tokushima Prefecture to 20.