Yamaguchi Prefecture and Shimonoseki City announced on the 26th that it was confirmed that 1382 new people were infected with the new coronavirus.
This brings the total number of confirmed infections in the prefecture to 65,306.
In addition, Yamaguchi Prefecture and Shimonoseki City announced that a total of two people, a man in his 80s and a woman in his 90s, who had been infected with the new coronavirus, had died.
The death toll of infected people in the prefecture has reached 194.