Oita Prefecture announced on the 29th that 350 new people were infected with the new coronavirus and two infected people died.
As a result, a total of 31,410 people were confirmed infected in the prefecture, and 142 people died.
In addition, as a result of conducting genetic analysis on infected people in the prefecture, it was confirmed that 6 people have been infected with the virus "BA.2", which is a kind of Omicron strain and is said to have high infectivity. That is.