In Saitama Prefecture, it was announced on the 15th that 3024 new people were confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus, a decrease of more than 550 from Friday a week ago.
The breakdown is 1886 for Saitama Prefecture, 530 for Saitama City, 326 for Kawaguchi City, 167 for Koshigaya City, and 115 for Kawagoe City.
In addition, Kawaguchi City withdrew one person announced on the 9th of this month because it was confirmed to be negative in the subsequent test.
With this, the total number of people who have been announced to be infected in the prefecture is 478,869.
On the other hand, the prefecture announced that one person infected with the new coronavirus died, and the total number of people who died in the prefecture was 1419.