Tochigi Prefecture and Utsunomiya City announced on the 18th that a total of 501 people have been confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.
In addition, the prefecture corrected the two people announced on the 17th as having withdrawn the outbreak report.
With this, the total number of confirmed infections in the prefecture is 55,484.
On the other hand, Tochigi Prefecture announced that one new patient died, bringing the total number of deaths in the prefecture to 228.