Hyogo Prefecture announced on the 16th that it was newly confirmed that 591 people in the prefecture were infected with the new coronavirus.
There are more than 100 people less than the same day of the previous week.
A total of 435,337 people have been confirmed infected in the prefecture.
As of the 15th, there is only one seriously ill person, as it was the day before.
Hyogo Prefecture and Nishinomiya City have also announced the deaths of two infected people.
A total of 2242 people died of infection in the prefecture.