Hyogo Prefecture announced on the 17th that it was newly confirmed that 5575 people in the prefecture were infected with the new coronavirus.
There are 3190 more people than the same day of the previous week, about 2.3 times more.
The number of newly infected people in the prefecture exceeds 5,000 a day for three consecutive days.
A total of 489,380 people have been confirmed infected in the prefecture.
As of the 16th, the number of severely ill people has decreased by one from the previous day to nine.
There was no announcement of the dead on the 17th.
The number of people infected and died in the prefecture is 2,260.