On the 21st, it was announced that 1821 people were newly confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus in Okayama prefecture.
The number of announcements for the day exceeded 1,458 on February 5, the highest number ever.
With this, the total number of confirmed infections in the prefecture is 116,664.
Okayama City also announced the death of one person.
The number of people infected in the prefecture and confirmed dead after that was 254.