On the 21st, it was announced that 302 new people were confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus in Chiba prefecture.



It is the first time that more than 300 people have been announced as infected each day since the second state of emergency was declared, 317 on January 30th.



In addition, the number of people has increased by 94 from Wednesday a week ago, and has exceeded the same day of the previous week for 14 consecutive days.



A total of 44,294 people have been confirmed to be infected so far.

Cluster within the office

On the 21st, a new cluster was announced at the office of an ironworks company in Kimitsu City, and 10 people were confirmed to be infected.