Ibaraki Prefecture and Mito City announced on the 9th that they have confirmed that 24 new people are infected with the new coronavirus, and the total number of people confirmed to be infected in the prefecture is 9987.



In addition, Ibaraki Prefecture announced that a new coronavirus was detected in a man who was transported from his home by emergency and was confirmed dead at a medical institution, and that one woman who had been hospitalized at a medical institution in the prefecture died. The number of people who died in the hospital was 157.



In addition, it announced that three of the confirmed infections by the 9th were newly infected with the mutated coronavirus, bringing the total to 888.