On the 8th, it was announced that 162 new people were confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus in Chiba prefecture.
In addition, Chiba City announced that one person who announced that the infection was confirmed on the 5th of this month will be excluded from the infected people because the medical institution has withdrawn the outbreak report.
This brings the number of people announced to be infected to 34,235.
Meanwhile, five new confirmed deaths have been announced, bringing the total number of deaths to 640.
In addition, it was newly confirmed that 47 of the confirmed infections were infected with the mutated virus.
A total of 657 people have been confirmed to be infected with the mutant virus.