On the 26th, Ibaraki Prefecture and Mito City announced that 66 new people were confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus and that one man who had been hospitalized at a medical institution in the prefecture had died.



On the other hand, the prefecture withdrew one of the infected people announced on the 25th because it was confirmed to be negative in the subsequent test, and the total number of infected people in the prefecture was 9543.



In addition, the prefecture announced that 12 of the confirmed infections had been infected with the mutated coronavirus, bringing the total to 649.