On the 14th, it was announced that a total of 340 people were newly infected with the new coronavirus in Kanagawa prefecture.
The number of infected people announced on the 1st in the prefecture has exceeded 338 on the 9th of this month, the highest number since the second state of emergency was lifted in March.
The number has exceeded 300 for the third consecutive day, 110 more than on Friday a week ago.
He also announced the deaths of a total of five people in their 70s and 90s.
According to NHK's summary, the number of infected people announced in the prefecture is now 57,248, of which 854 have died.
51 people infected with mutant virus
Kanagawa Prefecture announced on the 14th that it was confirmed that 51 new people were infected with the new coronavirus mutant virus.
According to the prefecture, 51 men and women under the age of 10 to 90s were newly confirmed to be infected with the mutant virus, and all of them were confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus from the end of last month to the middle of this month. These are the people who were announced.
It means that we are in the process of testing which country the mutant virus is spreading in.
This brings the total number of people confirmed to have been infected with the mutant virus to 1480 in Kanagawa Prefecture.