On the 3rd, it was confirmed that 157 people were newly infected with the new coronavirus in Chiba prefecture.
The number of infected people per day has exceeded 150 since the 30th of last month, three days ago.
A total of 40,733 people were confirmed infected in the prefecture.
In addition, it was newly announced that two men in their 80s and 70s who had been confirmed infected had died, bringing the total number of deaths to 710.