On the 8th, it was confirmed that 239 new people were infected with the new coronavirus in Chiba prefecture.
There are 226 more people than Saturday a week ago.
It is the first time in the prefecture that the number of confirmed infections exceeds 200 per day since September 19th last year.
On the other hand, Chiba Prefecture announced that a medical institution withdrew the outbreak report for a woman in her 30s who announced confirmation of infection on the 3rd of this month.
With this, the total number of confirmed infections is 101,353.
Also, as of the 7th, no one was seriously ill.
There were no announcements of those who died.