A total of 6 people in Yamaguchi Prefecture and Shimonoseki City announced that they were newly confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in Yamaguchi Prefecture to 3,000.
The prefecture also announced that one woman in her 80s, who had been hospitalized at a medical institution in the prefecture after being infected with the new coronavirus, had died, bringing the total number of infected people to 68.