In Saitama Prefecture, it was announced on the 26th that it was confirmed that 1175 new people were infected with the new coronavirus.
The number of people has decreased by more than 360 compared to Thursday a week ago, and it has fallen below the same day of the previous week for 12 consecutive days.
The breakdown of the announcement on the 26th
is 654 in Saitama Prefecture,
241 in Saitama City,
180 in Kawaguchi City,
53 in Koshigaya City,
and 47 in Kawagoe City.
In addition, Koshigaya City withdrew one person announced on the 17th of this month because it was withdrawn from a medical institution.
With this, the total number of infected people in the prefecture has reached 546,031.
On the other hand, the prefecture announced that six people infected with the new coronavirus have died, bringing the total number of deaths in the prefecture to 1581.