Yamaguchi Prefecture and Shimonoseki City announced on the 27th that it was confirmed that 1541 new people were infected with the new coronavirus.
This is the largest number of daily announcements.
This brings the total number of confirmed infections in the prefecture to 66,847.
Yamaguchi Prefecture also announced that a man in his 80s who had been infected with the new coronavirus had died.
The death toll of infected people in the prefecture has reached 195.