On the 17th, it was announced that a total of 37 people were infected with the new coronavirus in Kanagawa prefecture.
The number of infected people announced in a day is 17 fewer than the Sunday one week ago, and it is 52 consecutive days below the same day of the previous week.
Meanwhile, the city of Yokohama announced that a woman in her 70s who had been admitted to the "Makino Memorial Hospital" in Midori Ward, where the cluster occurred, died on the 12th of this month.
To date, 41 inpatients and staff have been found infected at the hospital, the second dead in the cluster.
According to NHK's summary, the number of infected people announced in Kanagawa Prefecture is 168,691, of which 1296 have died.