Tochigi Prefecture and Utsunomiya City announced on the 19th that a total of 854 people have been confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.
On the other hand, the prefecture has corrected that the outbreak report was withdrawn for one person who announced the infection confirmation on the 16th of this month.
With this, the total number of people confirmed to be infected in the prefecture is 39,620.
In addition, Tochigi Prefecture announced that two new patients have died, bringing the total number of deaths in the prefecture to 158.