On the 29th, it was announced that 1025 people were newly infected with the new coronavirus in Saitama prefecture, which is more than 240 people compared to Wednesday a week ago.
The number of infected people per day has exceeded 1000 since the 27th of last month.
The breakdown is 539 for Saitama Prefecture, 283 for Saitama City, 100 for Kawaguchi City, 68 for Koshigaya City, and 35 for Kawagoe City.
With this, the total number of people who have been announced to be infected in the prefecture is 568,503.
In addition, the prefecture announced that one person infected with the new coronavirus died, bringing the total number of deaths in the prefecture to 1663.