It was announced on the 16th in Saitama Prefecture that 6115 new people were confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.
The number of infected people announced on the 1st has exceeded 6000, which is the fifth highest number ever since February 20th.
It is also about 2.4 times that of Saturday a week ago, and is continuing to increase rapidly.
The breakdown is 3559 in Saitama Prefecture, 1397 in Saitama City, 587 in Kawaguchi City, 334 in Koshigaya City, and 238 in Kawagoe City.
With this, the total number of people who have been announced to be infected in the prefecture is 614,906.
On the other hand, Koshigaya City announced that a man in his 70s infected with the new coronavirus has died, and the total number of people who died in the prefecture has reached 1669.