On the 23rd, it was announced that 166 new people were confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus in Chiba prefecture.
The number of people decreased by 130 from Thursday a week ago, and fell below the same day of the previous week for 23 consecutive days.
On the other hand, Chiba Prefecture announced that one person announced on the 20th of this month will be excluded from the number of infected people because the medical institution withdrew the outbreak report.
This brings the total number of confirmed infections to 98,854.
In addition, the deaths of two people in their 50s and 80s who were confirmed to be infected were announced, and the total number of deaths so far has reached 985.