It was announced on the 2nd in Saitama Prefecture that 787 new people were confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.



It has dropped by more than 380 compared to Thursday a week ago, and has fallen below the same day of the previous week for 19 consecutive days.



The breakdown is


464 for Saitama Prefecture,


153 for Saitama City,


102 for Kawaguchi City,


46 for Koshigaya City,


and 22 for Kawagoe City.



With this, the total number of people who have been announced to be infected in the prefecture is 552,027.



On the other hand, the prefecture and Koshigaya city announced that a total of 6 people were killed after being infected with the new coronavirus, and the total number of people who died in the prefecture was 1613.