On the 18th, it was confirmed that 533 new people were infected with the new coronavirus in Hokkaido.
It is the first time since the 15th of this month that the number of confirmed infections in Hokkaido has exceeded 500 per day.
Of these, 377 were confirmed in Sapporo, 115 in Michi, 22 in Asahikawa, 11 in Otaru, and 8 in Hakodate.
In addition, Sapporo City announced that a total of seven men and women in their 60s and 100s, who had been confirmed to be infected, had died, and that one person whose age and gender were not disclosed died. Did.
This brings the total number of infected people in Hokkaido to 31,307 and the number of dead to 952.