In Saitama Prefecture, it was announced on the 24th that it was confirmed that 916 new people were infected with the new coronavirus.
The number of people has decreased by 180 compared to Tuesday a week ago, and it has fallen below the same day of the previous week for 10 consecutive days.
The breakdown of the announcement on the 24th is that Saitama Prefecture has 537 people, Saitama City has 272 people, Kawaguchi City has 62 people, Kawagoe City has 30 people, and Koshigaya City has 15 people.
In addition, Koshigaya City withdrew the one announced on the 12th of this month because it was duplicated.
With this, the total number of people who have been announced to be infected in the prefecture is 543,624.
On the other hand, the prefecture and Saitama City announced that a total of seven people were killed after being infected with the new coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths in the prefecture to 1,570.