Tokushima Prefecture announced on the 21st that it has confirmed that 228 new people are infected with the new coronavirus.
In Tokushima prefecture, the number of infected people per day exceeds 200 for 6 consecutive days.
With this, the number of infected people in the prefecture is 8922.
The prefecture also announced that two patients in their 60s and 80s and older who had been hospitalized in a medical institution had died.
73 people have died in Tokushima prefecture.